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Archaeology Notes

Event ID 665611

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/665611

NJ22NW 3 248 294.

(NJ 248 294) Site of Battle of Alltacoileachan (NR) AD. 1594.

OS 6"map, Banffshire, 2nd ed., (1905)

The Earl of Argyll opposed the Roman Catholic Earls of Huntly and Errol and was heavily defeated at the battle of Glenlivet, or Altachoylachan (NSA 1845), in October, 1594.

New Statistical Account (NSA, written by Rev W Asher - 1836) 1845; W C Dickinson 1961.

No further information.

Visited by OS (R L) 24 August 1966.

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