Summary
57°40′18″N 3°22′59″W / 57.6717462°N 3.3831148°W Kintrae is a hamlet in the parish of Spynie, Moray, Scotland, originally located on the southern shore of Loch Spynie.[1] The name is Celtic, meaning “the top of the tide”.[2]
Kintrae was the site of a church that was already being described as ancient ("veteri ecclesia de Kyntra") in a charter of 1203 to 1222.[1] This was probably connected to nearby Inchagarty ("Island of the Priest"), which lies 0.5 km to the west of Kintrae on a slight rise, and would originally have been an island in the loch.[1]
History edit
A charter was given to William, son of Freskin from King William I of Scotland, of the lands of Kintrae between 1165 and 1171.[3] Kintrae was sold by Alexander Stuart, 5th Earl of Moray to Alexander Sutherland, 1st Lord Duffus in 1653. The estate was purchased by Archibald Dunbar of Northfield who then sold Kintrae to John Gordon, 16th Earl of Sutherland in 1729.[4]
References edit
- ^ a b c Ross, Alasdair (2015). Land assessment and lordship in medieval Northern Scotland. Turnhout: Brepols. p. 290. ISBN 9782503541334.
- ^ *Parish of Spynie; A historical perspective, drawn from the Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland: A Survey of Scottish Topography, Statistical, Biographical and Historical, edited by Francis H. Groome.
- ^ Paul, Sir James (1909). The Scots Peerage. Vol. 8. Edinburgh: David Douglas. p. 319.
- ^ Young, Robert (1868). Notes on Burghead, Ancient and modern, with an appendix, containing notices of families connected with the place at different periods, and other information. Elgin: Jeans & Co. p. 77.