Sources of Information

Research carried out over many years in compiling the information on the Killiechassie Burial Ground in this website has referred to a number of sources including the National Archives of Scotland Records (now named the National Records of Scotland) and the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS). The information from these two sources is listed below.

National Archives of Scotland Records

(Now known as the National Records of Scotland)

Killiechassie

Reference	Title	Date	Access
CS46/1883/11/101	Decree in petition and application of Mrs Hannah Charlotte Scott Douglas of Killiechassie, and husband for authority to record instrument of disentail	Nov 1883	Open
GD1/408/44	Inventory of papers respecting the hill marches between estates of Menzies and Killiechassie and those in the process of advocation before the Court of Session	Jul 1817	Open
GD1/408/59	Extract decreet arbitral by Robert Peter, agent at Aberfeldy for Central Bank of Scotland, on submission by Sir Robert Menzies Bt., and Robert Stewart Flemyng of Killiechassie anent marches. Regd. Sheriff Ct. Bks. Perth, 1 Dec 1849	29 Nov 1849	Open
GD1/408/60	Letter from Archibald Campbell, Camserney Cottage, to Sir Robert Menzies sending documents concerning the disputes with Killiechassie about marches and the peat moss	24 Jun 1850	Open
GD30/606	Inventories and Appraisement of Household Furniture etc belonging to the late Principal Sharp, Murray Place St Andrews and Cuilaluinn House, Killiechassie	Oct-Nov 1885	Open
GD112/7/10	Papers concerning the Loch Tay fishings	1741-1859	Open
GD112/11/2/5/5	Representation and petition of Alexr Stewart, tenant at Killiechassie, pointing out that it was due to his exertions that two of his nephews had enlisted, along with others, asks for possession of John MacFarlane in Margdow of Carwhin, or one in Duntaggart in Murthly	30 Nov 1793	Open
RHP5295	Sketch plan of lands around Killiechassie, Perthshire	1737	Check
RHP5296	Plan of the farm of Glassie	1778	Open
RHP5297	Plan of the hill marches from Moor of Glassie to Creag an Loch, between Sir Robert Menzies of that Ilk and Robert Stewart Fleming of Killiechassie	1778	Open
RHP5298	Sketch plan of the hill marches through Loch Glassie and Creag Loisgte	1778	Open
RHP5299	Plan of the Lands of Killiechassie belonging to James Fleming, Esq. By Robert Robertson, surveyor.	1787	Open
RH15/61	Bonds, letters and legal papers, some relating to Stewart of Killiechassie: Including Contract between Sir Alexander Menzies of that ilk, Dame Marion Campbell, his spouse, and Robert Menzies, their son, on one part, and John Steuart of Killichassie, on other part, anent marches between their lands of Glassie and Killichassie,	1636-86	Open. Off-site

Edradynate

Reference	Title	Date	Access
CH12/23/537	Mr George Robertson of Edradynate, Edradynate, to John Alexander	11 Jun 1747	Open
GD1/501/87	Precept of clare constat by James, Earl of Athole, Lord of Balvany, in favour of William Fergussone, now of Decullich, as heir to his father, John Fergussone of Dercullich, in the lands of Dercullich and Edderdaguenich [Edradynate] in the earldom of Athole, sheriffdom of Perth. Tag. With typed abstract. [Documents relating to the family of Menzies of Weem.]	24 Nov 1610	Open
GD112/47/21	Papers in dispute between Breadalbane and Capt Robertson of Edradynate, latter claiming that present line of Aberfeldy to Kenmore road was almost impassible due to steepness of hills between Porter Lodge and Kenmore, and asking that the road should be returned to the old line and the bridge of Comrie rebuilt	1823-1825	Open
GD112/47/28	Miscellaneous Papers	1823-1824	Open
GD112/47/29	Further letters relating to dispute over line of the Taymouth Road, Robertson of Edradynate v Breadalbane	May-Dec 1824	Open
GD132/157	Copy of charter of confirmation by Lt. Gen. Wm Robertson, Lude, to James Stewart Robertson, Edradynate, of mains of Downie, parish of Kirkmichael.	Dec 1813	Open
RHP44235	Plan of Edradynate and adjacent lands.	Late 19C	Open
RHP94482	Plan of debatable lands of Dunie (Downie), produced in causa	Jul 1764	Open

Weem

Reference	Title	Date	Access
RHP335/1	Plan of the lands of Derculich, Perthshire	1846
RHP335/2	Plan of the lands of Derculich, Perthshire	1804
RHP3892	Plan of the River Tay between Bolfracks and Tay Bridge	1823
RHP3893	Plan of River Tay and adjacent grounds between Castle Menzies and Bolfracks	1823

Plans and Maps

Reference	Title	Date	Access
RHP12393	Plan (2 copies) of the situation near Lochan Lairig Laoigh of Sir Robert Menzies’s upper towns of Lurgan, Balmore (Ballymore), Tomnaca, Tominteold and Shenavail.	1810
RHP38289	Plan of ground feued to Aberfeldy Cemetery Company.	1890
RHP44231	Ordnance Survey 1/2500 plan (Perthshire, sheet XXXIX.15) marked at and near Derculich to show dye-house, mill and “lint rotting ponds”.	1867
RHP44848	OS 1/2500 plan of River Tay west of Aberfeldy, marked to show sandbanks.	Late 19C
RHP46716	Plan of ground south of Loch Kinnaird proposed to be exchanged between Rt Hon Marquis of Breadalbane and Sir William Drummond Stewart of Grandtully, bt	1858
RHP78374	OS 6 inch plan (sheet XLIX.NW) marked to show farm boundaries	1944-1955
RHP78375	OS 6 inch plan (sheet XLIX.NE) marked to show farm boundaries	1944-1955
RHP78376	OS 6 inch plan (sheet XLIX.NE) marked to show farm boundaries	1944-1955
RHP78377	OS 6 inch plan (sheet XLIX.SW) marked to show farm boundaries	1944-1955

The Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS)

Records for sites at Killiechassie

Site type: STANDING STONE
Canmore ID: 25725
Site Number: NN85SE 7
NGR: NN 8716 5094
Council: PERTH AND KINROSS
Parish: WEEM

Archaeological Notes

NN85SE 7 8716 5094.

(NN 8710 5100): Standing Stone. Information from M E C Stewart, 14 December 1964.

At NN 8716 5094, a squarish, earthfast block in a false crest position. It measures 1.0m high x 0.7m square at base. Despite its small size, there is nothing to indicate that it is not of ancient origin.

Surveyed at 1:2500. Visited and resurveyed by OS (AA) 12 February 1975.

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Site type: NATURAL FEATURE
Canmore ID: 25712
Site Number: NN85SE 32
NGR: NN 8685 5124
Council: PERTH AND KINROSS
Parish: WEEM

Archaeological Notes

NN 869 512: Carn Mor (Big Cairn) is situated near the NE boundary of Killiechassie estate near a tinkers’ winter camp. J Kennedy 1927

NN 8685 5124: Carn Mor refers to a rocky crag. There is no evidence of a cairn in the area.

Visited and resurveyed by OS (RD) 10 February 1971

In ‘Folklore and Reminiscences of Strathtay and Grandtully’, published in 1927, James Kennedy refers to a large cairn near the boundary of the Killiechassie estate. This is almost certainly the Carn Mor surveyed by RCAHMS. In Mackay’s ‘Aberfeldy Past and Present’, published in 1954, there is reference to “a single standing stone”.