The Barony of Cowie is a geographical and political division of land in Aberdeenshire, Scotland deriving from the Middle Ages. Aberdeenshire (Siorrachd Obar Dheathain is one of the 32 unitary Council areas in Scotland. Scotland ( Gaelic: Alba) is a Country in northwest Europethat occupies the northern third of the island of Great Britain. [1] King Robert the Bruce conferred these lands of the Barony of Cowie, along with the Barony of Cluny and the Barony of Kinnaird upon Alexander Fraser of Touchfraser and Cowie, who was his Chamberlain at least as late as 1319 AD. Robert I King of Scots ( 11 July, 1274 &ndash 7 June, 1329) usually known in modern English as Robert the Bruce ( Alexander Fraser of Touchfraser and Cowie {died August 11 1332) was a member of the Scottish nobility who served as the Lord Chamberlain of A chamberlain is an officer in charge of managing a household. The major transport route across the Barony of Cowie in the Middle Ages was an ancient trackway known as the Elsick Mounth,[2]
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- ^ A. A trackway is an ancient route of travel for people and/or animals The Elsick Mounth is an ancient Trackway crossing the Grampian Mountains in the vicinity of Netherley Scotland. Cowie is an Historic Fishing Village in Aberdeenshire, Scotland. Cowie Castle is a Ruined Fortress in Aberdeenshire, Scotland. The Cowie Water is a River rising in the Grampian Mountains in Aberdeenshire, Scotland that discharges to the North Sea in the northern Muchalls Castle stands overlooking the North Sea in the countryside of Kincardine and Mearns, Aberdeenshire, Scotland. Watt, 1985
- ^ C. M. Hogan, 2008
References
- C. Michael Hogan (2007) Elsick Mounth, The Megalithic Portal, ed. Andy Burnham [1]
- Archibald Watt, Highways and byways around Kincardineshire, Stonehaven Heritage Soc. , Scotland (1985)
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