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![[Kirkcudbrightshire flag]](../images/g/gb-skirk.gif)
image by Philip Tibbets, 2 August 2016See also:
The fourth Scottish county flag has been announced, Kirkcudbrightshire. The
county town of Kirkcudbright was named for the saint, Cuthbert. An early
rendition of the name of the town was Kilcudbrit, derived from the Scots Gaelic
“Cille Chuithbeirt” (Chapel of Cuthbert). The Anglo-Saxon saint’s remains were
kept here for seven years between exhumation at Lindisfarne and re-interment at
Chester-le-Street. A pectoral cross was found on the
saint’s body when his tomb was opened in the nineteenth century. The original is
on display in Durham Cathedral where he was eventually buried. That cross is
depicted on the flag of County Durham and is also seen on the flag of
Kirkcudbrightshire. In this case the green and white colour scheme was selected
by its creator, Philip Tibbetts, because of its appearance in the arms of the
Kirkcudbrightshire County Council where the colours are shown in a chequered
form across the old Galloway arms (of which Kirkcudbrightshire was a part) to
recall the checked tablecloth used by the Stewards of the Lords of Galloway when
collecting taxes and other dues. The county is thus also known as the “Stewartry
of Kirkcudbright”.
Jason Saber,
9 June 2016
Quartered Vert and Argent a cross patty quadrate counterchanged.
António Martins-Tuválkin, 10 June 2016
![[St. Cuthbert's pectoral cross]](../images/g/gb-skirkx.jpg)
image provided by Jason Saber,
9 June 2016
![[Old Galloway arms]](../images/g/gb)skirkcc.gif)
image provided by Jason Saber,
9 June 2016
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