Place:Dundrennan, Kirkcudbrightshire, Scotland

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Name	Dundrennan
Type	Hamlet
Coordinates	54.8085°N 3.9464°W
Located in	Kirkcudbrightshire, Scotland ( - 1975)
See also	Rerrick, Kirkcudbrightshire, Scotland	parish in which Dundrennan was located until 1975
	Dumfries and Galloway Region, Scotland	regional administration 1975-1996
	Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland	unitary Council Area since 1996

source: Family History Library Catalog

Dundrennan lies a mile (1.5 km) from the coast of the Solway Firth and 6 miles (10 km) east of Kirkcudbright. It is built partly from stones taken from the ruins of nearby Dundrennan Abbey which was founded in 1142 by King David I and Fergus, Lord of Galloway, but was not completed until the 1180s. Dundrennan Abbey was where Mary Queen of Scots spent her last night in Scotland.

Some of the graveyard transcriptions in Stewartry of Kirkcudbright Memorial Inscriptions pre-1855, vol 5, chapter 23: Rerrick, (by Alison Mitchell, published 1996 by the Scottish Genealogy Society, Edinburgh, Scotland) refer to Dundrennan Abbey as if it were a settlement or community, however the description of Dundrennan Abbey in the introduction to the Dundrennan chapter (Volume 3, chapter 13) infers that it is a ruined ecclesiastical building with a graveyard around it. Maps indicate that Dundrennan Abbey is located within the village of Dundrennan. This writer assumes that they are the same place or very close to being so.

References to the cemetery at Dundrennan Abbey are found under the parish of Rerrick.

Dundrennan was located in the parish of Rerrick in the former County of Kirkcudbrightshire in southwest Scotland. This area is now part of the unitary authority called the Dumfries & Galloway Council Area.

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