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List of names as written Various modes of spelling Authorities for spelling Situation Description remarks
LOCHNAGAR Lochnagar
Lochnagar
Lochnagar
Lochnagar
?Loch-na-gar
?Loch-na-Garaidh
Loch-na-garaidh
Lochnagar
Revd. [Reverend] D. Campbell
Mr. J. Grant
Mr. C. Duncan
Natural History of Deeside & Braemar
Fullarton's Gazetteer
Fullarton's Gazetteer
Old Statistical Account
New Statistical Account
099 [Situation] In the parishes of Crathie and Braemar, and Glenmuick Tullich and Glengairn
This is a first class hill of great magnitude the greater part of which is in the Balmoral Forest rising to above 3800 feet above the level of the sea and being steep on all sides particularly the Eastern which is a great mass of rock, almost perpendicular in some places, and above 1000 feet high, from (Lochan a Garaidh) which is immediately at the base of the cliff and from which it is named, Lochnagar, but if it written in Gaelic the hill would not be known in the neighbourhood. It is celebrated in Song by Lord Byron, and is visited frequently by Naturalists, and numerous Tourist's in the Summer Season.

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Aberdeenshire -- Parish of Crathie & Braemar

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