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LEITH HALL Leith Hall (A.D. 1650) Col. [Colonel] Leith Hay. C.B. [Companion of the Bath] Proprietor
Mr. Maitland Craighall
Doctor Mackie - Insch.
043 "Leith Hall is situated in the Parish of Kennethmont, and at the western extremity of the district of Garioch. It was, until altered by modern improvement, one of those massive, Towers, flanked by Turrets, which appears to have been in the close of the Sixteenth century, and during a period of the seventeenth, the peculiar style of architecture adopted by the Lairds of Aberdeenshire. It was, in its earlier days, defended by a strong wall, having a Turret at each angle, and containing an area of about two acres. About half a mile to the westward, runs the river Bogie, from whose left bank rises the hill of Noth, on the summit of which is the most remarkable specimen of a vitrified fort, either as to altitude, extent of area, or preservation extant in Great Britain. **********
"The Leiths of Edingarroch, the head of the family, and now represented by that of
Leith Hall, were settled in Aberdeenshire in the reign of Alexander the Third, at which
period, Sir Norman Leslie, progenitor of the Earl of Rothes, married a daughter of the
Laird of Edingarroch. The immediate ancestor of the Leiths of Leith Hall was -
William Leith of Barns, a person of rank and distinction in the reign of David."
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