DALBEATTIE, police burgh, Kirkcudbrightshire, Scotland. Pop. (1931) 3,011. It lies on Dalbeattie Burn, 141 m. S.W. of Dumfries by the L.M.S.R. The town dates from 1780 and owes its rise to the granite quarries at Craignair and elsewhere in the vicinity, from which was derived stone used for the Thames embankment, docks at Odessa and Liverpool and other works. Besides quarrying, the industries include concrete (crushed gran ite) works, paper, bobbin, corn and timber mills, brick-making and glove manufacture. The estuary of the Urr, known as Rough firth, is navigable by ships of 150 tons, and small vessels can ascend as far as the mouth of Dalbeattie Burn, within a mile of the town. A mile to the north-west stand the ruins of the castle of Buittle or Botel, where lived John de Baliol, founder of Balliol college, Oxford, who had married Dervorguila, daughter of Alan (d. 1234), the last "king" of Galloway.