Places, place names, and structures on Mar Lodge Estate

Mar Lodge Estate is the largest remnant of the ancient "Earldom of Mar" and is now owned by the "National Trust forScotland".

Allanaquoich

A locality on the east bank of the Quoich Water close to its confluence with the River Dee - see independent article Allanaquoich.

Altanour Lodge

A ruined hunting lodge (pronounced like "Altan Ower"), at the head of "Glen Ey" (southern-end), in a small plantation of spruce and larch.

Named from the nearby stream "Alltan Odhar - dun streamlet (Watson 1975)".

A landrover road runs between "Altanour Lodge" and the public road at Inverey.

Am Beitheachan

A locality (pronounced like "be-a-chan") in "Glen Quoich" upstream of where the Dubh Ghleann joins it near the foot of Beinn a' Bhùird - "the little birch place - (Watson 1975)".

In "Watson (1975)" the author is evidently relying on his deep understanding of the local Gaelic for spelling and pronunciation, because in "Dixon and Green (1995)" (relying of documents) refer to the locality as "Beachan" - discussing a proposal to put the rental of specific "shielings" up for "public roup" (auction):

Black Bridge

The bridge in Glen Lui over the "Lui Water" roughly half-way between "Linn of Lui" and Derry Wood - see main reference in Glen Lui article.

Bynack Lodge

Along with "Derry Lodge", and "Geldie Lodge" - one of the 'three main' hunting lodges on the estate built in the late nineteenth-century during the rise of hunting on the estate - "Dixon and Green (1995)".

Chest of Dee

A series of waterfalls and deep pools on the "River Dee" slightly up-river from White Bridge.

From "Ciste Dhe - Watson (1975)".

Clach nan Taillear

Clach nan Taillear "stone of the tailors - Watson (1975)" is a large stone by the Lairig Ghru where:

Corriemulzie

A locality on the "Linn of Dee" road - see independent article Corriemulzie.

Corrour Bothy

A "Bothy" in the Lairig Ghru used as a "Mountain Refuge" - see independent article Corrour Bothy.

Derry Dam

Derry Dam is a structure - partially surviving in Glen Derry about 1 1/2 miles upstream from Derry Lodge and shown on Ordnance Survey maps - according to "Watson (1975)" it was used to dam the water of the Derry Burn for use floating trees down the glen. He continues:

"Michie" (pronounced like "Mickey") is "John Grant Michie (1830-1904)" a Minister of Dinnet author of "Deside Tales (1872)", "Loch Kinnord (1877)", "Logie-Coldstone (1896)", and "Records of Invercauld (1901)" - "Wyness (1968)".

Derry Lodge

Along with "Bynack Lodge", and "Geldie Lodge" - one of the 'three main' hunting lodges on the estate built in the late nineteenth-century during the rise of hunting on the estate - "Dixon and Green (1995)".

Located within "Derry Wood" - it was likely used as temporary accommodation for shooting parties to reduce the need to return to "Mar Lodge" at night.

Derry Wood

A wooded locality where "Glen Derry", and "Glen Luibeg" join at the head of "Glen Lui" - see main reference in
Glen Lui article.

Dubh Ghleann

A glen that joins "Glen Quoich" near the foot of Beinn a Bhuird (pronounced like "do glen") - from "dark valley - Watson (1975)".

Gallows Tree

A tree on the south-bank of the "River Dee" a short distance west of Victoria Bridge that was used - literally - as a "Gallows".

The date of its last use is not known, but in "Wyness (1968)" the author recounts the story of a curse against the "Farquharsons" being fulfilled in "1806" when the “"direct male line of Farquharson came to an end"”. The curse - as he relates - was against a “"Farquharson laird"” who had sentenced a "Lamont" of "Inverey" to death for “"cattle-rustling and sheep-steeling"”.

The tree is dead, supported by wires, and has been since at least "1925".

Geldie Lodge

Along with "Bynack Lodge", and "Derry Lodge" - one of the 'three main' hunting lodges on the estate built in the late nineteenth-century during the rise of hunting on the estate - "Dixon and Green (1995)".

While describing the course of the "River Dee" in "Anderson (1911)" - the author mentions that "Geldie Lodge" had been tenanted for many years by Lord Farquhar a friend of the estate's owner, the Duke of Fife.

Glen Lui

One of the main glens of the estate - see independent article Glen Lui.

Glen Quoich

One of the main glens of the estate.

Inverey

The only remaining hamlet on "Mar Lodge Estate" - see independent article Inverey.

Lairig Ghru

A route and mountain pass that partially lies on "Mar Lodge Estate" - see independent article Lairig Ghru.

Luibeg

A cottage and locality around the "Luibeg Burn" where it joins with the "Derry Burn" to create the "Lui Water" - see main reference in Glen Lui article.

"Luibeg Cottage" has been home to many of the estate's deer-stalkers or "keepers".

March Burn

Is a burn in the Lairig Ghru slightly to the east of the pass summit - the "Mar Lodge Estate" side.

In the first paragraph of "Gordon (1925)" the author uses the term ‘march’ in the old-sense of a boundary:

He again uses the term in the old-sense when describing a September crossing of the "Lairig Ghru" where he gives the burn its old as well as its contemporary Anglicised name:

Mar Lodge

The ‘main house’ on "Mar Lodge Estate" - see independent article Mar Lodge.

Mar Lodge Brae

Is the name of the incline between Corriemulzie and the Victoria Bridge.

Pools of Dee

Three small pools near the summit of the Lairig Ghru on the "Corrour" side.

The old name was "Lochan Dubh na Lairige" - "black tarn of the Lairig - Watson (1975)" who adds:

Erroneous because the "pools" are not the source of the River Dee - see Wells of Dee

Preas nam Meirleach

Literally "copse of the robbers - Watson (1975)", but colloquially known as "Robbers Copse" - the wooded locality were the route between Glen Luibeg and the Lairig Ghru crosses the "Luibeg Burn".

On the "Luibeg" side of "Preas nam Meirleach" - "Watson (1975)" names the "Sands of Lui" describing it as "a stretch of gravel washed down by the floods in 1829 and 1956.

The flood of 1829 is ‘remembered’ in "Deeside" as the "Muckle Spate". On the evening of the 2nd of August 1829 it began raining, and continued in to the next day when a thunder storm broke in the afternoon over the Cairngorms. The "Dee" being the main river of the district rose rapidly above its normal level - convert|15|ft|m|abbr=on in places (27ft at Banchory) carrying away the bridges over the "Linn of Dee", and "Linn of Quoich" - "Wyness (1968)".

apper's Bothy

A ruined stone ‘bothy’ just east of the summit of Ben Macdui built around 1847 by (or for the use of) the survey team from the Ordnance Survey who surveyed the Cairn Gorm / "Ben Macdui" plateau. This survey settled the argument around whether "Ben Macdui" or Ben Nevis was the highest mountain in "Britain".

In "Watson (1975)" the author gives its map reference as 991988.

neck

The Sneck is the name of the bealach between Beinn a' Bhùird and Ben Avon - "Watson (1975)", and the 1:25000 series Ordnance Survey maps.

Victoria Bridge

The white iron bridge over the "Dee" at Mar Lodge - see independent article Victoria Bridge.

Wells of Dee

The source of the River Dee, the water rising from a spring on the Braeriach / Einich Cairn plateau at about 1220m (4000ft) - "Watson (1975)" - who continues:

The Ordnance Survey maps name the waterfall the "Falls of Dee", the corrie as "An Garbh Choire", and the burn as "Allt a Gharbh choire". Covering the same ground earlier in the twentieth century - "Anderson (1911)" records:

That ‘defile’ being the Lairig Ghru.

White Bridge

The bridge over the "River Dee" near its confluence with the "Geldie Burn" - carrying the landrover road to the south-bank of the "River Dee" giving access to:
* "Glen Geldie" and "Geldie Lodge" (ruin)
* "Glen Bynack" and "Bynack Lodge" (ruin)
* "Glen Tilt"

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