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Pluscarden, in co. and 6 miles SW. of Elgin; P.O.; Pluscarden (or Pluscardine) Abbey, in valley of same name, was founded as a Cistercian house in 1230, and is now a well-preserved ruin; the Book of Plus-carden, an early history of Scotland, is supposed to have been written by a monk of the abbey about 1461.
(John Bartholomew, Gazetteer of the British Isles (1887))
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Place: | Pluscarden |
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