Where is Corriehoul ?The McHardy Family of Corryhoul Website
Where is Corriehoul ?Corriehoul lies in remote area of Corgarff in the most western part of the Don Valley in the Highlands of Aberdeenshire in the North East of Scotland. The valley is narrow here and the climate harsh. Arable land is in short supply and the growing season is likewise short. There are no definitive records as to when man first settled this land but an Eirde house was unearthed further down the valley in Strathdon. The onetime strategic importance of the valley comes from the routes that cross it from the north to the south. Castles were built on these at various times at Corgarff, Invernochty, Glen Buchat, and Kildrummy. Much of the place names you see on the maps originate in the Gaelic language which was spoken here until the spread of English.
On the following maps "X" marks the spot (sadly no story in the family of buried treasure).
Click on the hyperlinks below to go to the following on this page :-
The maps below are reproduced by kind permission of the Ordnance Survey (OS) and are from the metric Routemaster series. Their scale does not really do Corriehoul justice. More detailed metric maps of the area are as follows :
Landranger Series (1:50 000)
Strathdon Sheet 37 (shows all of Corriehoul)
Grantown, Aviemore & Cairngorm Area Sheet 36 (shows the summer shieling on )
Pathfinder Series (1:25 000)
Cock Bridge Sheet NJ 20/30 (shows all of Corriehoul in better detail)
Strathdon Sheet NJ 21/31
Caledonian Books, Collieston, Ellon, Aberdeenshire also reprint historical Ordnance Survey maps. The "Tomintoul" one covers all of the above area of interest and dates from 1876 (revised 1896). These are one inch to one statute mile scale.
Look at
19th Century Ordnance Survey map of Corgarff online at Landmark
Information Group
Well and truly in the now remote heart of North east Scotland.
The red cross marks Corriehoul. The green cross marks the spot where the McHardy family of Corriehoul's had their summer shealing (the place where cattle were taken onto the mountain pasture in summer) on Clachfeann . You can read more about this on the page with the title "Corryhoul and the McHardy family".
Those of you reading this in the U.K who yearly hear from the television and radio weather news that the Cock Bridge to Tomintoul road is closed due to snow, can now say you know where it is !
Here we see Corgarff "zoomed in" at 1:40 000 scale. Again the red cross marks the spot. The folk museum marked on the map (in the wrong place one may add) is now closed. It was in Corgarff Hall.
In order to comply with the requirements of the Ordnance Survey copyright, I have included the following links below which are reproduced on "The Links Page".
Image produced from the Ordnance Survey Get-a-map service. Image reproduced with kind permission of Ordnance Survey and Multi Media Mapping.