A trawl through the folklore, history, tales, and ephemera of Angus.
Wednesday 31 January 2024
Ochterlony's Account of the Shire of Forfar - Part Three
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This is the third part of John Ochterlony's Account of the Shire of Forfar, written around 1682, and gives a fascinating, if brief and...
Wednesday 1 November 2023
The Ballad of Lord Spynie
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Few people know much about the noble title of Spynie or those who bore that name. There were several Lord Spynie's in the late 16th and...
Thursday 16 February 2023
'The Ball O' Kirriemuir' - Did it Really Happen?
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Those among us who are not overly fond of hearing about orgies may not be pleased with further information about the notorious sexualised b...
Wednesday 25 May 2022
The Deuchar Family - Swordsmen, Jacobites, Templars
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T his post is an expansion on several previous pieces I wrote concerning the Angus family of Deuchar , who long inhabited the place of t...
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Wednesday 29 December 2021
Áedán mac Gabráin and the Battle in Angus
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A subject I have returned to several times during the lifetime of this blog is the unresolved question of how Irish was the region now kno...
Saturday 4 September 2021
More On The Phantom Drummer of Cortachy Castle and the Ballad of the Bonnie Hoose o' Airlie
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This post supplements and updates the previous piece I wrote on the Phantom Drummer of Cortachy (published on 29th January 2015, which can...
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