Ordnance gazetteer of Scotland > Volume 5

LOGIERAIT
.:louce beiii body,' who followed his calling in a humble
tliatched cottage at North Water Brig ; and John Stuart
Mill about 1864 paid a visit to his father's birthplace.
In the ruined ' Aukl Kirk of Pert ' close by, George
Beattie makes John o' Arnha' see 'unco sights.'
Nearly a mile to the W of Craigo House are three
remarkable tumuli, the Laws of Craigo, two of which,
being opeued, were found to contain five human skeletons
of extraordinary size. Mansions, noticed separately,
are Craigo and Gallery ; and the property is divided
among three. Logie-Pert is in the presbytery of Brechin
and tlie synod of Angus and Mearns ; the living is worth
£293. The old church of Logie, like that of Pert, still
stands in ruins by the North Esk's bank. The present
parish church was built in 1840, and contains 700
sittings. There is also a Free church ; and two public
schools, Craigo Works and Logie-Pert, with respective
accommodation for 158 and 96 children, had (1882) an
average attendance of 69 and 61, and grants of £48, 4s.
and £51, 19s. Valuation (1857) £6292, (1884) £8353,
.3s., pht3 £1517 for railway. Pop. (1801) 908, (1841)
1560, (1861) 1483, (1871) 1251, (1881) Q95.--Ord. Siir.,
sh. 57, 1868.
Logierait (Gael. Iciri-an-rath, ' hollow of the castle '),
a village and a parish of N central Perthshire. The
village is beautifully situated on the N bank of the Tay,
5 furlongs above the influx of the Tummel, and J mile
W of Ballixluig Junction, this being 8| miles E by N
• of Aberfeldy and 8 N by W of Dunkeld. A neigh-
bouring eminence was crowned by a castle of Robert IIL
.(1390-1406), and now is the site of a conspicuous and
richly-sculptured Celtic cross, erected in 1866 to the
memory of the sixth Duke of Athole. Long the seat of
the regality court of the lords of Athole, which wielded
wide jurisdiction with almost absolute powers, the
village then had its court-house, gaol, and Tom-na-
croiche or 'gallows-knoll.' The court-hall is said to
have been ' the noblest apartment in Perthshire, ' more
than 70 feet long, with galleries at either end ; whilst
Kob Roy escaped from the gaol (1717), and Prince
Charles Edward confined within it 600 prisoners from
Prestonpans. Almost the sole survivor of the past is
the hollow 'Ash Tree of the Boat of Logierait,' which,
•63 feet in height and 40 in girth at 3 feet from the
ground, is said to have been ' the dool tree of the dis-
trict, on which caitiffs and robbers were formerly
■ executed, and their bodies left hanging till they dropped
and lay around uuburied. ' The lower part of the trunk
•is quite a shell, and has been formed into a summer-
house or arbour, capable of accommodating a consider-
able number of people. A chain-boat over the Tay was
started in 1824 ; and Logierait also has a post oflice, an
inn, and the Athole and Breadalbaue combination poor-
house, erected in 1864, and accommodating 117 inmates.
Wordsworth and his sister Dorothy dined at Logierait
on 6 Sept. 1803.
The parish comprises a main body and five detached
sections, its total area being 61 J square miles or 39,253
acres, of which 1493J are water, and 21,098§ belong to
the main body. This, with Logierait village on its
southern border, is bounded W by Dull, N by Dull and
Moulin, NE by Kii-kmichael, SE by Clunie, and S by
Dunkeld-Dowally, Little Dunkeld, and Dull. It all
but surrounds the Dalcapon section of Duskeld and
DowALLT, and has an utmost length from E to W of
11 miles, whilst its width varies between IJ mile and 4J
aaUes. The Tumiiel runs 6^ miles south-south-east"
■ward, partly along the Moulin boundary, but mainly
across the interior, till it falls into the Tav, which
itself flows 6| miles east-by-south ward along the western
half of the southern border. Much the largest of nine
sheets of water are Loclian Oisinneach Mhor (4x3 furl. )
and Loch Beooji (5i x 2 furl.), which latter partly
belongs to Moulin and Dalcapon. In the extreme S the
surface sinks along the Tay to 185 feet above the sea ;
-and chief elevations to the E of the Tummel are *Creg-
.nam Mial (1842 feet), *Meall Reamhar (1741), and Tom
■Bheithe (1192) ; to the W, *Carra Bea^ (1250), Creagan
.an Feadaire (1318), and the *eastern shoulder (2000) of
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Beinn Eagach, where asterisks mark those heights that
culminate on the confines of the parish.
Two only of the detached sections are of any size.
Of these the largest, containing Carie, 3 miles WSW of
Kinloch Rannoch, on the N is bounded for 3i miles by
Loch Rannoch, and on all other sides by Fortingall.
It has an utmost length and width of 5 and 4g miles ;
and its surface is mountainous, rising southward from
668 feet to 3370 at Carn Gorm on the southern border.
The second largest section, containing Lochgarry House,
2^ miles E by N of Kinloch Rannoch, on the S is
bounded for 3g miles by the winding Tummel, and on
all other sides by Fortingall. It has an utmost length
and width of 5J and 2J miles ; and the surface rises
northward from 650 feet to Beiun a' Chuallaich (2925),
from which again it declines to 1250 along a head-
stream of Erichdie Water. The three other sections
are all small — one containing Killieohassie House
and a third of the town of Aberfeldy ; another border-
ing on Loch Glassie ; and the third including the SW
half of Loch Deroulich.
The scenery of the parish, especially that of its main
body, is eminently picturesque. ' The windings of the
rivers, the rich vales, the sloping corn-fields and pas-
tures, the hauging woodlands, and the awful mountains
in the distance,' as seen from a rock about 1 mile dis-
tant from Logierait village, ' form one of the noblest
landscapes, for extent, variety, beauty, aud grandeur,
that the eye can behold ; ' and the combinations of vale
and hill, glen and mountain, wood and water, cliff and
cascade, exquisite culture and sublime desolation, as
seen from many standpoints, both in the main body
and in the detached sections, are striking specimens of
almost all the best kinds of Highland scenery. The
rocks are very various. Several strata of limestone lie
in different parts ; in oue place occurs a variety of talc ;
and building stones of different kinds are occasionally
raised on almost every estate. The soil of the low
grounds is chiefly alluvium ; on the slopes of the hills
is mostly deep and loamy ; on the higher grounds is
cold and spouty ; and on the mountains is nearly every-
where moorish. Less than one-fifth of the entire area is
in tillage ; rather more than one-tenth is under wood ;
and the rest is either pastoral or waste. Distilling is
stiU carried on, though not to such an extent as for-
merly. Antiquities are Caledonian standing-stones and
cairns in several places, an ancient camp near Middle-
haugh, a sculptured stoue in the parish churchyard, a
ruined beacon-house on a rock 2 miles from Logierait
village, and sites and burying-places of several pre-
Reformation churches. Amongst natives of Logierait
have been Adam Ferguson, LL.I). (1724-1816), the histo-
rian ; Robert Bisset, LL.D. (1739-1805), the biographer
of Burke ; Daniel Stewart (1741-1814), the founder of
Stewart's Hospital in Edinburgh ; and General Sir Robert
Dick of TuUymet, who fell at Sobraon (1846). Mansions,
noticed separately, are Balleohin, Donavourd, Dun-
fallandy, Eastertyre, Edradynate, Killieohassie,
Lochgarry, Middlehaijgh, Pitnacree, and Tully-
met ; and 6 proprietors hold each an annual value of
£500 and upwards, 15 of between £100 and £500, and
22 of from £20 to £50. Giving off part to Kinloch
Rannoch quoad sacra parish, Logierait is in the
presbytery of Weem and the synod of Perth and
Stirling ; the living is worth £364. The parish church,
at Logierait village, was built in 1806, aud contains
1000 sittings ; and a handsome mission-church was
built at Aberfeldy in 1884. Logierait Free church
dates from Disruption times ; and TuUymet Roman
Catholic church, Our Lady of Good Aid, was built in
1855. In Strathtay are Episcopal and Roman Catholic
chapels ; and four schools — Aberfeldy public, Logierait
public, Strathtay Stewart's free, and TuUoch of Pitna-
cree — with respective accommodation for 310, 201, 129,
and 68 children, had (1882) an average attendance of
185, 128, 41, and 33, aud grants of £138, 5s. 6d.,
£120, 13s., £52, Os. 6d., and £36, 14s. Valuation
(1866) £14,396, 17s. 8d., (1884) £19,118, Os. 6d. Pop.
(1801) 2890, (1831) 3138, (1861) 2592, (1871) 2417,
549