- Cairnamounth
Cairnamounth is a crossing route of the
Mounth in theGrampian Mountains ofScotland . It has served as an ancientmilitary route at least from Roman times through the 13th centuryAD .Andrew Wyntoun, "Original Chronicle", ed. F.J. Amours, vol. 4, pp 298-299 and 300-301 (c. 1420)] The alignment of the Cairnamounth,Elsick Mounth andCausey Mounth ancienttrackway s had a strong influence on themedieval siting of many fortifications and other settlements [http://www.megalithic.co.uk/article.php?sid=18037 C. Michael Hogan, "Elsick Mounth", The Megalithic Portal, ed. Andy Burnham] ] in the area comprised by present dayAberdeenshire on both sides of theDee River .History
In the 11th century
AD Mac Bethad (commonly known as Macbeth) survived the original Englishinvasion , for he was defeated and mortally wounded or killed byMáel Coluim mac Donnchada on the north side of theMounth in 1057, after retreating with his men over the Cairnamounth Pass to take his last stand at the battle atLumphanan .Andrew Wyntoun, "Original Chronicle", ed. F.J. Amours, vol. 4, pp 298-299 and 300-301 (c. 1420)] The "Prophecy of Berchán" has it that he was wounded and died at Scone, sixty miles to the south, some days later. [The exact dates are uncertain, Woolf gives 15 August, Hudson 14 August and Duncan, following John of Fordun, gives 5 December; "Annals of Tigernach" 1058.5; "Annals of Ulster" 1058.6.] Mac Bethad's stepson Lulach mac Gille Coemgáin was installed as king soon after.ee also
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Aboyne Castle
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