Kirkcowan
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Kirkcowan is a village and former parish in Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland.
It is situated in the north of the Machars peninusula, about 8 miles south west of Newton Stewart.
The principal industry has always been agriculture, although in 1822 a woollen mill was erected on the River Tarf nearby. Kirkcowan was also on the route of medieval pilgrims as they walked south from Ayrshire to Whithorn, stopping at such rest places as Bladnoch.
Kirkcowan also had a railway station on the Portpatrick and Wigtownshire Joint Railway until the line was closed in 1965.
