Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for Kincardine

Kincardine, estate, with romantic glen, modern seat, and ruins of ancient castle, Blackford par., S. Perthshire; Kincardine Glen, on Ruthven Water, extends 2½ miles NE. to vicinity of Auchterarder; Kincardine Castle, seat, is 1¼. mile S. of Auchterarder; the old castle, farther up the glen, was dismantled by Argyll in 1645; Kincardine gives the title of earl to the Duke of Montrose.


(John Bartholomew, Gazetteer of the British Isles (1887))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "estate"   (ADL Feature Type: "land parcels")
Administrative units: Blackford ScoP       Perthshire ScoCnty

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