Sc. Also kirk-ton. The town, village or hamlet in which the parish church is: = church-town (CHURCH sb. 18). b. A glebe.
1706. Sempill, Piper Kilbarchan, in Chambers’ Pop. Hum. Scot. Poems (1862), 24. Or who can for our kirk-town cause Stand us in stead?
1864. Glasgow Herald, 14 May, 6/6. The use of the word Kirktoun was common. It applied to all collections of houses, not farm touns, which surrounded parish kirks.
1872. E. W. Robertson, Hist. Ess., 136. The ordinary amount of Kirktown or glebe assigned to the church … was a hall-davoch.
a. 1894. Stevenson, Olalla, Wks. 1895, III. 313. The mountain village, which was, as we say in Scotland, the kirk-ton of that thinly peopled district.
