CROICH, or Croick, a quoad sacra parish (formerly),
in the parish of Kincardine, county of Ross-and-Cromarty,
9 miles (W.) from Kincardine; containing 316
inhabitants. This place, the name of which signifies a
nook or corner, is situated on the Carron water, and is
the head of a remote pastoral civil parish district.
It was formed into a quoad sacra parish in 1S27, and is
within the bounds of the presbytery of Tain, synod of
Ross: the church was erected in the same year. The
stipend of the minister is £\20, with a manse, and a
glebe of the annual value of £ 10; the patronage is in the
Crown. There is a small school.