GILLISLAND, (Cumberland) on the N. side of the Co. bet. the rs. Kirksop and Whit-Leven, was anciently in the family of the
Moltons; then in that of the Lds. Dacre, who held it a long, time, till it went by marriage to the noble family of the
Howards, and gives title of Baron to that branch, who are the Es. of Carlisle. 'Tis a tract much embarrassed with brooks,
here called Gilles. The picts-wall runs through part of it, from Carlisle to the E.