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List of names as written Various modes of spelling Authorities for spelling Situation Description remarks
STONE CIRCLE (Remains of) [Corr Stone] Stone Circle (Remains of)
Stone Circle (Remains of)
Stone Circle (Remains of)
Mr. Milne. Mains of Druminnor
Revd. [Reverend] Alexander McKay Free Manse Rhynie
Mr. Carr. Rhynie.
043 Applies to the remains of a Druidical place of Worship, there are five stones of this Circle remaining four of which are lying down, & one standing, this latter is 7 feet in height, by 2½ feet in breadth, One of the prostrate stones is of enormous size: & is 13 feet in length by 3½ in breath. The other three are of smaller dimensions averaging from 6 to 7 feet in height by ½ in breath. The stone now standing was erected by the inhabitants of the surrounding neighbourhood in the Summer of 1799.
CORR STONE Coarse Stone
Coarse Stone
Coarse Stone
Corsestone
Mr. Milne. Mains of Druminnor
Revd. [Reverend] Alexander McKay Free Manse Rhynie
Mr. Carr. Rhynie.
Robert Grant Esq. Druminnor House
043 This name applies to one of the above prostrate Stones, & is 13 feet in length by 3½ in breath, so called from its irregular, Coarse Shape. I think the name has been revived from the Gaelic "Corr", on account of the enormous size of this stone. E.H.C. Capt R.E. [Captain Royal Engineers]

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Parish of Auchindoir & Kearn

CORR STONE
"Cor, A twist, a turn
*Corr. Great, excellent." (Gaelic)
"Corse- The cross" (Jamieson)

Corse Stone, certainly. JMD

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