Fettercairn

This article is about the Scottish village. For the suburban area in Dublin, see Tallaght. For the whisky distillery, see Fettercairn distillery.
Fettercairn
Royal Arch by John Milne
Fettercairn is located in Aberdeenshire
Fettercairn
Fettercairn
Location within Aberdeenshire
OS grid referenceNO650734
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Sovereign stateUnited Kingdom
Post townLAURENCEKIRK
Postcode districtAB30
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56°51′06″N 2°34′32″W / 56.85161°N 2.57548°W / 56.85161; -2.57548

Fettercairn (/ˌfɛtərˈkɛərn/, Scottish Gaelic: Fothair Chàrdain) is a small village in Aberdeenshire, Scotland,[1][2] northwest of Laurencekirk in Aberdeenshire on the B966 from Edzell. Fettercairn is also reached via the Cairn O' Mount road (B974) from Deeside.

The name comes from the Scottish Gaelic Fothair and the Pictish carden and means "slope by a thicket". The name appeared as Fotherkern in c. 970.[3]

In the 2011 national census, Fettercairn had a population of 353.[4]

  1. ^ Ordnance Survey: Landranger map sheet 45 Stonehaven & Banchory (Map). Ordnance Survey. 2014. ISBN 9780319231685.
  2. ^ "Ordnance Survey: 1:50,000 Scale Gazetteer" (csv (download)). www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk. Ordnance Survey. 1 January 2016. Retrieved 18 February 2016.
  3. ^ Mills, A.D. (2011) [first published 1991]. A Dictionary of British Place Names (First edition revised 2011 ed.). Oxford: Oxford University Press. p. 187. ISBN 9780199609086.
  4. ^ "Area Profiles | Census Data Explorer | Scotland's Census". www.scotlandscensus.gov.uk. Retrieved 2021-01-10.