a county of Scotland, which gives the title of Earl to a branch of the noble family of Stuart. It is divided into two districts; the western, called Upper Galloway, being the same with Wigtonshire; and the eastern, or stewartry of Kirkcudbright, called Lower Galloway. See Kirkcudbright and Wigtonshire.

Mull of Galloway, the south cape or promontory of all Scotland, in the county of Galloway, on the Irish sea.

GALLOWAYS is the name of a peculiar sort of horses, so called from the county of Galloway in Scotland, where they are bred. Tradition reports that this kind of horses sprung from some Spanish stallions, which swam on shore from some of the ships of the famous Spanish armada, wrecked on the coast; and coupling with the mares of the country, furnished the kingdom with their posterity. They were much esteemed, and of a middling size, strong, active, nervous, and hardy.