0 an area of southwestern Scotland that was a county (= an area with its own local government) until 1975:
Samuel Rutherford Crockett was born in Kirkcudbrightshire in 1859.
He and his wife, Jeannie, went to live by Loch Ken in Kirkcudbrightshire.
He was back in his native village of Twynholm, Kirkcudbrightshire.
Earl Selkirk's name is also associated with Kirkcudbrightshire.
