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From Stewartry of Kirkcudbright Memorial Inscriptions pre-1855, vol 1, by Alison Mitchell, published 1990 by the Scottish Genealogy Society, Edinburgh, Scotland:
- "The township shows the little bay must have been more populous in the middle ages than it is now, and the parish was served by a vicar from at latest 1431 until the Reformation. Its early history is uncertain, so it can be confused with Balmaghie, which was [also] called Kirkandrews, in the same Diocese (of Galloway) and at one time in the same deanery (Deanes). After the Reformation the poverty of the parish could not attract a minister, and from 1590 the minister of Borgue had the cure of Kirkandrews and Senwick as well. The three parishes were legally united in 1657/1670.
- "The walled field of the original burial ground is still in use, but there is no trace of the church and manse, unless they form part of the enclosure used by the Thomsons of Ingleston and the McLellans of Barmagechan."
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