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Swindridgemuir, a plain two-story mansion in Dalry parish, Ayrshire, 2 miles ENE of the town. It was built about 1830 by Jn. Smith, Esq. (1754-1838), whose great-grandfather had acquired the estate about the year 1700, and whose great-nephew was BrigadierGeneral Jas. Geo. Smith-Neill (1810-57), a hero of the Indian Mutiny. (See Ayr.) His son, Wm. Jas. Smith-Neill, Esq. (b- 1837), holds 1275 acres in the shire, valued at £3743 per annum.—Ord. Sur., sh. 22, 1865. See A. H. Millar's Castles and Mansions of Ayrshire (Edinb. 1885).
(F.H. Groome, Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland (1882-4); © 2004 Gazetteer for Scotland)
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