Dunsyre

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Dunsyre (Gaelic: Dùn Saghair) is a village in South Lanarkshire, Scotland. It is 6 miles from Carnwath . Dunsyre is associated with an ancient barony and parish church. The name of Dunsyre is of Celtic origin is supposed to signify the "Hill of the Seer," It is located by the burn known as the South Medwin Water.

The surface is generally elevated, and rises further still into the surrounding hills. Dunsyre Hill overlooks the area from the north and Blackmount from the south. Dunsyre Hill forms the termination of the Pentland Hills, a range extending for nearly twenty miles from the immediate vicinity of Edinburgh. This hill has an elevation of 500 feet above the general surface of the lands, and of 1315 above sea level; a small range of gradually diminishing hills branches off towards the west from it, stretching to the parish of Carnwath. Between the Dunsyre and Walston ranges is a level valley about three miles in length and a mile wide. The small river of the South Medwin runs along the valley, eventually joining the river Clyde.