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Kirkcudbrightshire ( ), or the County of Kirkcudbright or the Stewartry of Kirkcudbright is a historic county, registration county and lieutenancy area in the informal Galloway area of south-western Scotland. For local government purposes, it forms part of the wider Dumfries and Galloway council area of which it forms a committee area under the name of the Stewartry. The county is occasionally referred to as East Galloway,〔The New Statistical Account of Scotland (1834)〕 forming the larger Galloway region with Wigtownshire. It is bounded on the north and north-west by Ayrshire, on the west and south-west by Wigtownshire, on the south and south-east by the Irish Sea and the Solway Firth, and on the east and north-east by Dumfriesshire. It included the small islands of Hestan and Little Ross. It maintains a strong regional and distinct political identity. It formed a district in the Dumfries and Galloway region and today the Stewarty is an area committee represented by eight councillors. Local administration of the area today is overseen by a Stewartry Area Manager, based in the county town of Kirkcudbright. The current Lord Lieutenant of Kirkcudbright, the Crown's representative in the area, is Lt Col Sir Malcolm Ross. ==Early History== The country west of the Nith was originally peopled by a tribe of Celts called Novantae, who long retained their independence. After Agricola's invasion in 79 AD the country nominally formed part of the Roman province of Britannia, but the evidence is against there ever having been a prolonged effective Roman occupation. There was a Roman Temporary Marching Camp at Shawhead, Irongray Parish.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=SHAWHEAD CAMPS )〕 After the retreat of the Romans, the fate of the Novantae is unknown but by the 6th century Galloway was part of the Brythonic kingdom of Rheged. By the 7th century much of Galloway became part of the English kingdom of Northumbria. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Kirkcudbrightshire」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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