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| Kincardine Castle | [continued from page 184] Engaged 2. in an insurrection against him, his mother Finella was of the royal family, and who is still spoken of in the Mearns as a Queen, vowed vengeance against Kenneth. Her Castle or residence, 2 (See Name Sheets plan 19/11, Finella Castle.) the site of which is still pointed out, lay near to the royal palace of Kincardine, and on the south end of the hill which is still known by her name. Near to the palace and consequently near to her residence was a large park or forest, the enclosures 3 of which can still be traced in many places, and which even now at this distance of time goes by the name of the "King's Deer" or "Hunting Park." During the residence of Kenneth at Kincardine, who had come there on his pilgrimage to the Chapel of St Palladius, he is said to have gone one day to hunt in this park or forest, and that Finella, having got the opportunity she so much wished for caused two assassins to way-lay and murder him" New Stat Act [Statistical Account] Page 79) "The earliest authentic notices of the Castle of Kincardine occur in the reigns of William I and Alexander III both of whom occasionally resided there, During the time of the first of these monarchs it was a place of considerable importance, to which were attached all the officers common to a royal household of the period. The remote progenitor of the noble family of Kintore, was chief falconer or hawksman, in virtue of which he held the lands of Hawkerstown in the neighbourhood, and adopted the name of Falconer. It is also told but on much less reliable authority, that an early member of the noble house of Southesk, was constable of the castle, and for that service held certain lands in the barony of Kincardine. The only other traces of the ancient greatness of the palace are the names of adjacent fields, such as the King's and Chancellor's Parks. The Chancellor's and the Dean's Croft, the Deer or Hunting Park, the Countess' Croft, and the Earl's Inns, as also Lorimer's, the Archer's and 3 [Continued on page 186] |
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[Page] 1852. Roman camp
3. Deer Dyke?
The small parks are not known as the enclosures are all destroyed B.R. [B. Render]
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