Scotsbrig is a farm near Ecclefechan, Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland, and a Category B listed building.
Thomas Carlyle lived there with his family in the summer of 1826 before moving to 21 Comely Bank, Edinburgh.
[1] The farmhouse underwent numerous additions and renovations in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
Then we have a linn [waterfall] with crags and bushes, and a 'fairy knowe [knoll]' tho' no fairies that I have seen yet; and, cries our Mother, abundance of grand thready peats, and water from the brook, and no reek and no Honour[a] to pester us!
To say nothing, cries our father, of the eighten yeacre [acre] of the best barley in the country; and bog-hay, adds Alick,[b] to fatten scores of young beasts!