Braegarie or Bregary is a
clachan on the
Mar Lodge Estate in the
Cairngorms National Park
Cairngorms National Park ( gd, Pàirc Nàiseanta a' Mhonaidh Ruaidh) is a national park in northeast Scotland, established in 2003. It was the second of two national parks established by the Scottish Parliament, after Loch Lomond and The Tro ...
.
Its name means ''brae'' – the slope of a river valley – and ''ghàraidh'' – a
dry stone
Dry stone, sometimes called drystack or, in Scotland, drystane, is a building method by which structures are constructed from stones without any mortar to bind them together. Dry stone structures are stable because of their construction m ...
walled enclosure.
In 1632, the area was sold by the
Earl of Mar to Alister Mackenzie to form the
Corriemulzie
Corriemulzie is a locality on Mar Lodge Estate, Aberdeenshire, Scotland.
Corriemulzie lies on the Linn of Dee road about 3 miles west of Braemar. The locality includes the Corriemulzie Burn that flows through the Linn of Corriemulzie, and under ...
estate. It then passed to
Farquharson of Inverary who sold it to the
Earl of Fife in 1785 so that it again became part of the
Mar Estate
Mar, mar or MAR may refer to:
Culture
* Mar or Mor, an honorific in Syriac
* Earl of Mar, an earldom in Scotland
* MAA (singer) (born 1986), Japanese
* Marathi language, by ISO 639-2 language code
* March, as an abbreviation for the third month ...
.
[
In 1841, three households were recorded.][ In 1859, there were three small thatched farmhouses with associated outbuildings.][ One house, which had been built in 1900, was sold to the secretary of the ]Cairngorm Club
The Cairngorm Club is a mountaineering club, based in Aberdeen, Scotland formed in June 1887.
History
The Cairngorm Club was founded by Alexander Copland, Rev. Robert Lippe, Alexander Inkson M'Connochie, Rev. C. C. Macdonald, W. A. Hawes, and W ...
in 1982. It was dilapidated and so was then renovated.
References
Buildings and structures in Aberdeenshire
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