Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for Cowie

Cowie, rivulet, fishing vil. and harb., seat, and ruined castle and chapel (Kirk of Cowie), Fetteresso par., Kincardineshire. Cowie Water flows 13 miles E., and falls into Stonehaven Bay at Stonehaven. The vil. and harb. are ¾ mile N. of Stonehaven; adjacent is Cowie House. The ruins of the Castle of Cowie, built by Malcolm Canmore, are on a rock overlooking the sea.


(John Bartholomew, Gazetteer of the British Isles (1887))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "rivulet"   (ADL Feature Type: "streams")
Administrative units: Fetteresso ScoP       Kincardineshire ScoCnty
Place: Cowie

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