- Airlie, Angus
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Coordinates: 56°38′58″N 3°07′25″W / 56.649328°N 3.123623°W
Airlie Scottish Gaelic: Iarlaidh
Airlie shown within AngusOS grid reference NO312514 Council area Angus Lieutenancy area Angus Country Scotland Sovereign state United Kingdom Post town KIRRIEMUIR Postcode district DD8 Dialling code 01575 Police Tayside Fire Tayside Ambulance Scottish EU Parliament Scotland UK Parliament Dundee East Scottish Parliament Angus
North East ScotlandList of places: UK • Scotland • Airlie (Scottish Gaelic: Iarlaidh) is a civil parish in the Scottish council area of Angus. It is the seat of the Earl of Airlie, and the location of Airlie Castle. It comprises Craigton of Airlie, Baitland of Airlie and Kirkton of Airlie. There is a standing stone in a field just east of the Baitland; various Pictish and Roman relics (stone coffins etc) have been uncovered and the primary school is reputed to have been built on the site of an old graveyard. Airlie also contains one of the finest examples of a Pictish souterrain in Scotland, with the carving of a snake clearly visible in the ceiling.
Airlie Castle is not currently open to the public, however it is remembered in the song 'The Bonnie Hoose o' Airlie' which is mentioned in Robert Louis Stevenson's novel Kidnapped. The song commemorates the burning of the castle (some of the stonework is still black) by the Earl of Argyll, claiming to act on behalf of the anti-royalists, while the earl was away fighting for the Jacobite cause. However, it is also claimed that Forter Castle in Glen Isla was the "bonnie hoose" destroyed in 1640.
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