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Kincardineshire. Kincardineshire or the County of Kincardine, also known as the Mearns (from the Scottish Gaelic A' Mhaoirne meaning "the stewartry"), is a historic county, registration county and lieutenancy area on the coast of north-east Scotland. It is bounded by Aberdeenshire on the north, and by Angus on the south-west.
Kincardine and Mearns is one of six area committees of the Aberdeenshire council area in Scotland. It has a population of 38,506 (2001 Census). There are significant natural features in this district including rivers, forests, mountains and bogs (known locally as mosses ). Transport links with Aberdeen have encouraged rapid population growth ...
Laurencekirk ( / ˌlɒrənsˈkɜːrk /, Scots: Lowrenkirk, [2] Scottish Gaelic: Eaglais Labhrainn ), locally known as Lournie, is a small town in the historic county of Kincardineshire, Scotland, just off the A90 Dundee to Aberdeen main road. It is administered as part of Aberdeenshire. It is the largest settlement in the Howe o' the Mearns ...
Kincardine, Aberdeenshire. Coordinates: 56.8654°N 2.5435°W. Kincardine was a burgh in Scotland, near the present-day village of Fettercairn. It gave its name to and served as the first county town of Kincardineshire . The settlement gradually developed around Kincardine Castle. The origin of the castle is not known, although it has been ...
Built. c.1400–1600. In use. Until 1718. Dunnottar Castle ( Scottish Gaelic: Dùn Fhoithear, "fort on the shelving slope") [1] is a ruined medieval fortress located upon a rocky headland on the north-eastern coast of Scotland, about 2 miles (3 kilometres) south of Stonehaven. The surviving buildings are largely of the 15th and 16th centuries ...
Stonehaven is the site of prehistoric events evidenced by finds at Fetteresso Castle and Neolithic pottery excavations from the Spurryhillock area. [4] In 2004, archaeological work by CFA Archaeology, in advance of the building of the Aberdeen to Lochside Natural Gas Pipeline, found two short cists burials containing cremated remains to the southwest of Stonehaven.
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