Braegarie

Braegarie or Bregary is a clachan on the Mar Lodge Estate in the Cairngorms National Park.[1][2] Its name means brae – the slope of a river valley – and ghàraidh – a dry stone walled enclosure.[3]

Braegarie

View SW from the road by Mar Lodge and the River Dee. Braegarie is located adjacent to the forest on the right hand side of the image.
Braegarie
Location within Aberdeenshire
OS grid referenceNO1089
Council area
CountryScotland
Sovereign stateUnited Kingdom
PoliceScotland
FireScottish
AmbulanceScottish

In 1632, the area was sold by the Earl of Mar to Alister Mackenzie to form the Corriemulzie 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.[4]

In 1841, three households were recorded.[4] In 1859, there were three small thatched farmhouses with associated outbuildings.[5] In 1911, two households were recorded.[4] One house, which had been built in 1900, was sold to the secretary of the Cairngorm Club in 1982. It was dilapidated and so was then renovated.[4]

References
  1. Ordnance Survey: Landranger map sheet 43 Braemar & Blair Atholl (Map). Ordnance Survey. 2011. ISBN 9780319231197.
  2. "Ordnance Survey: 1:50,000 Scale Gazetteer" (csv (download)). www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk. Ordnance Survey. 1 January 2016. Retrieved 30 January 2016.
  3. William McCombie Alexander (1952), The Place-names of Aberdeenshire, Third Spalding Club, p. 186
  4. Eddie Martin; Graham Ewen (2015), Alister Macdonald (ed.), "Corriemulzie" (PDF), The Caingorm Club Journal, 22 (111): 246–253
  5. Aberdeenshire OS Name Books, 1865-1871, 18
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