Blair Collection > Place names in Strathbogie, with notes historical, antiquarian and descriptive

274 Place Names in StratJibogie.
of 1600, consisted of the lands of Finglennie,
Bogincloch, Forrest, New and Auld Merdrum,
Longley, Garbet, Lesmoir, Essie, and Balhanie ;
and we know from the Retours that Templand
was the ' Temple-lands of Essie,' Myttes and
Scordarg both formed part of Rhynie. I there-
fore conclude that the old boundary extended
from the summit of the hill now called the Hill
of Cransmill, down the slope to the east of
Cransmill, formerly called Mill of Finglennie,
to the junction of the Burn of Merdrum with
Kirkney Water, which burn it probably followed,
and crossing over the ridge between Scordarg
and Lesmoir, it descended to the Burn of Les-
moir, which was the march until it joined the
Essachie to the east of Templand.
Rhynie and Essie are understood to have
contained eight of the ' aucht and forty dauchs
of Strathbogie,' and I give the names of seven of
them. Lesmoir, Essie, Balhanie, and Affleck
constituted the dauch of Essie, and there fol-
lowed ' The Waterside,' Scordarg, Rhynie, Mil-
ton, Smithston, and Noth. These I give partly
from tradition and partly from written records,
but the eighth dauch I have failed to discover.
MILLDUAN.
At the base of the Tap o' Noth, lying N. by
N.W., is Millduan (pron. Milldewan), interesting
from the traditions connected with it. The