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

174 Place Names in Strathbogie.
this parish and of Glass, descending to the
Deveron at the Burn of Torry, directly opposite
the present march of Cairnie and Glass. As
Drumdelgie and Garntully thus marched for
several miles, we can understand their ecclesi-
astical connection, and see that the parson of
Drumdelgie could travel to the chapel at Bralan-
knovves, which was under his charge, without
going beyond the limits of his own district.
On the north side of the Deveron the parish
included Broadland, Bogforth, Mill of Cairnbor-
row, Drumdelgie, Bogmoon, Boghaugh, Binside,
Overkirks, and Inshtomach.
It is interesting and im.portant to notice how
slowly changes were introduced into these old
Rentals. In that of 1677, to which I have re-
ferred, we find the limits of these old parishes
followed more than a hundred years after they
had ceased to exist as ecclesiastical boundaries.
The district is entirely wanting in any traditions
as to their extent or limits, and but for such
official documents we should now have lost all
knowledge of them. Comparing the Rentals of
1600 and 1677, I find the changes few and un-
important, and we are safe to conclude that there
has been in past times special care to preserve
the old forms of the place names — hence the
value of these documents in all topographical in
vestigations.
On the annexation of Drumdelgie to Botarie,