Drummore is the largest and most southerly of all the Rhins villages. It has the distinction of being Scotland’s most southerly village.

The village is fortunate to have a small supermarket – “Drummore Stores”, Mill Street where you can obtain cash-back, a public house,“The Ship Inn” on Shore Street and "The Queens Hotel” on Mill Street. There is also a Post Office with cash machine, and you can buy deisel and get repairs done at “Ward’s Garage” in Stair Street. Drummore has a Primary School, and you will find local information available at Kirkmaiden Information Centre in the main street (Mill Street). Centre is only open at Easter and from the end of May until mid September.

“Clashwhannan Caravan Park” – and Pub, greets you as you enter the village and you will find a caravan site at Maryport when you leave, towards the south.

Drummore has a harbour, the pier of which was built at the beginning of the last century by A. McDowall, corn merchant and tenant of High Curghie. It was used by the M.O.D. in connection with the West Freugh until a couple of years ago, but now owned by Drummore Harbour Trust.

The name Drummore comes from the Gaelic Druim-mor, “the big ridge”, although in reality the highest point is only between 250 and 300 feet. A castle once stood where the farm of Low Drummore now stands, the home of the Adairs of Kinhilt, the lands having been granted to them in 1602 by King James VI. High Drummore was the place where the Adairs meted out justice at the ancient court hill or Mote, and a gold torc was found there, which is now in the National Museum in Edinburgh.

Standing overlooking Low Curghie is the Kirk Covenant which was built in 1638. On display is the old bell, which was made in 1534 for Nicholas Ramsay, Laird of Dalhousie by one John Morrison. It previously hung in Kenmure Castle, the home of the Gordons, and, somehow, made its way to the Gordons of Clanyard, where it was used as a dinner bell, later presenting it to the church. In the graveyard are some interesting stones, dating back hundreds of years, one in particular having been built in the shape of a lighthouse.

At Low Curghie shortly before 1860, a gravestone was discovered which appeared to date to the 5th or 6th century, the Latin inscription was badly weathered, but the name “Ventidius” was legible along with another word which translated at “sub-deacon”. The stone was being used as a grave cover and had obviously been moved from the original grave. The stone has been lost but has similarities with the Kirkmadrine Stones.

In the 1871 census, Drummore had 1127 males and 1318 females, a total of 2445. In 1998 a community profile was drawn up to show that Drummore had a population of 310, with a total of 810 for the 5 villages.

In 1892 a horse drawn coach ran from the “Queens Hotel” to Stranraer leaving Drummore at 7.30am and 4.50pm, arriving at 10.30am and 7.25pm respectively, a journey of 3 hours. The motor bus service began in 1907, leaving at 9.30am, 2.00pm and 6.00pm, the journey time being cut to one and a half hours. A railway was considered in 1878 but was opposed by the Earl of Stair and permission was refused.