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List of names as written | Various modes of spelling | Authorities for spelling | Situation | Description remarks |
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DRUM'S CAIRN (Remains of) | Drums Cairn (Remains of) |
Mr Hugh McDonald, Ploughman's Hall Mr James Cruickshank, Barreldykes Mr George Stewart Hunthall |
044 | "Four hundred yards northeast in the line of the church road, is part of an ancient cairn called (Drums Cairn) said to mark the spot where Irvine of Drum was Slain, while pursuing Donald Lord of the Isles after the battle of Harlaw 1411. This cairn was opened and partly removed eight years ago, on the road being widened at the place; but nothing was found confirmatory of the above tradition, and though a field in the near vicinity is named Drum's Fauld it may have acquired that name from its round and convex form, various other places of the like appearance being also called Drums" Statistical Account of Aberdeenshire |
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