Forsyth places the tale among his cairns and stones and compares it to the ballad of the Dowie Dens of Yarrow, which suggests that it may have borrowed from that or a similar song. There is no date or surname for the lover, so there is nothing to check the story against.
Hauntings
Mary Macintyre's Spirit at Glenmore
Glenmore, below the Cairngorms (the stone Leac Staingean)
Traditional; told in the 18th or early 19th century
- Evidence
- Long-standing local tradition
- Access
- Access unrecorded
- Location
- 57.166, -3.694 (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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