A village about eight miles west of Fraserburgh. In the Book of Deer it is written, "Columcille and Drostan son of Cosgrach his pupil came
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Fig. 1499.—Aberdour. Plan.
from I as God had shown to them unto Abbordo-boir and Bede the Pict was mormaer of Buchan before them, and it was he that gave them that
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Fig. 1500.—Aberdour. View from South-West.
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Fig. 1501.
Aberdour.
Jamb of Arch to Aisle.
town in freedom for ever from Mormaer and tosech." In these words a scribe, writing in the eleventh or twelfth century, tells of the planting of Christianity in the North about A.D. 580. It is probable that the clerics tarried at Aberdour for a time, and founded a monastery on the land which had been granted to them.[1] In later times the parish church was dedicated to St. Drostan, and in 1178 and 1318 there are notices of its erection into a prebend of St. Machar's Cathedral.[2] In 1557 there is a mandate
