The record is a small example of how a death at a roadside cairn led to a haunted spot. Forsyth also notes that such cairns commonly mark deaths by accident or violence. He gives no description of what is seen or heard.
Hauntings
The Cairn of the Wife of Lurg
Cairn at the south end of the Balliefurth plantation, Abernethy
Accident about 1840; belief recorded 1900
- Evidence
- Long-standing local tradition
- Access
- Access unrecorded
- Location
- 57.270, -3.648 (Parish-level only, treat as an area)
Sources: Rev. W. Forsyth, In the Shadow of Cairngorm (1900), The Cairns and their Traditions [public-domain]
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