Airlie, Angus

Airlie
Scottish Gaelic: Iarlaidh
Airlie Airlie shown within Angus
OS grid reference	NO312514
Council area	Angus
Lieutenancy area	Angus
Country	Scotland
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	KIRRIEMUIR
Postcode district	DD8
Dialling code	01575
Police	Scottish
Fire	Scottish
Ambulance	Scottish
EU Parliament	Scotland
UK Parliament	Angus
Scottish Parliament	Angus South
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Coordinates: 56°38′58″N 3°07′25″W / 56.649328°N 3.123623°W / 56.649328; -3.123623

Standing Stone by Baitland of Airlie

Airlie (Scottish Gaelic: Iarlaidh) is a civil parish in the Scottish council area of Angus.^[1]^[2] It is the seat of the Earl of Airlie, and the location of Airlie Castle. It comprises Craigton of Airlie, Baitland of Airlie and Kirkton of Airlie. There is a standing stone in a field just east of the Baitland; various Pictish and Roman relics (stone coffins etc.) have been uncovered and the primary school is reputed to have been built on the site of an old graveyard. Airlie also contains one of the finest examples of a Pictish souterrain in Scotland, with the carving of a snake clearly visible in the ceiling.

Drawing of "The Bonnie Hoose o' Airlie"

Airlie Castle is not currently open to the public, however it is remembered in the song 'The Bonnie Hoose o' Airlie' which is mentioned in Robert Louis Stevenson's novel Kidnapped. The song commemorates the burning of the castle (some of the stonework is still black) by the Earl of Argyll, claiming to act on behalf of the anti-royalists, while the earl was away fighting for the Jacobite cause. However, it is also claimed that Forter Castle in Glen Isla was the "bonnie hoose" destroyed in 1640.

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Angus

Principal towns	Arbroath Brechin Carnoustie Forfar Kirriemuir Monifieth Montrose

Other towns and villages	Aberlemno Airlie Arbirlot Ardovie Ascreavie Auchnacree Auchmithie Auchinleish Auchterhouse Balgray Balintore Balkeerie Balmirmer Balnaboth Barry Birkhill Boddin Boysack Brewlands Bridge Bridgend of Lintrathen Bridgefoot Bridge of Craigisla Bucklerheads Burnside of Duntrune Caldhame Camuston † Careston Carlungie Carlogie Carmyllie Castleton Charleston Clayholes Clova Colliston Cortachy Cottown of Guthrie Craichie Craigo Craigton Douglastown Dronley Drumsturdy Dubton Dun Dunnichen Dykehead Eassie East Haven Edzell Elliot Farnell Folda Friockheim Gallowfauld Gardynebourg † Gateside Glamis Greystone Guthrie Hillside Hunter's Town † Inveraldie Inverarity Inverkeilor Inverpeffer † Kellas Kincaldrum Kingennie Kingsmuir Kirkbuddo Kirkinch Kirkton of Glenisla Kirkton of Kingoldrum Letham Liff Little Brechin Little Forter Lucknow Lunan Lundie Marywell Memus Menmuir Milden Milton of Finavon Milton of Ogilvie Monikie Muirdrum Murroes Newbigging Newtyle Northmuir Oathlaw Old Balkello Panbride Redford Ruthven Salmond's Muir St Vigeans Stracathro Strathmartine Tannadice Tarfside Tealing Trinity Unthank Upper Victoria Wellbank Wester Denoon Whigstreet Woodhill

References

↑ Ordnance Survey: Landranger map sheet 53 Blairgowrie & Forest of Alyth (Map). Ordnance Survey. 2012. ISBN 9780319231210.
↑ "Ordnance Survey: 1:50,000 Scale Gazetteer" (csv (download)). www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk. Ordnance Survey. 1 January 2016. Retrieved 30 January 2016.

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