Urr is recorded in this Index as a Scottish barony in the counties of Dumfries and Kirkcudbright. The earliest record identified so far is dated 1459. It also appears in the sources as Ur, Urrie and Urie.
The historical record
References identified
Register of the Great Seal
RMS ii, no.668, p.146, January 1458/59: administration of John Herries’s baronies, including half of Urr. Existing barony; not an erection charter. Day is unclear in the inspected OCR.
Retours and Lyon records
Published Retour index, Inquisitionum ad Capellam Domini Regis retornatarum abbreviatio, vol. III (1816): Dumfries baronia nos.23, 209, 346; Kirkcudbright baronia nos.176, 199, 216, 236, 283, 380, 388, 425.
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