Trowie Glen on Hoy is named for the trows. The story, cited to a Marwick publication of 1991, has Magnus Ritch follow a procession of small folk into a cave. Inside he finds the trow king in a richly decorated hall.
The end of the tale is that the smoke from his tobacco overcame the trows and left him free. Smoke working against fairy folk is a motif that appears in the Mansie Rich story at the Dwarfie Stane, too.
The summary I have comes from a blog that lists the tales with their sources. I could not find the original text, and the glen could not be pinned exactly, so the pin is a general Hoy point.
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