Document record MAB49774 - BARONY OF CULBIN

Site of a medieval barony, houses and village buried in sand during a storm in 1694/5.

Site of a medieval barony, houses and village buried in sand during a storm in 1694/5. No map or plan is known to exist which shows the farms and buildings of the estate before it was overrun by sand. Remains of Culbin House were seen in the early 1930s. The first known owners of the land were the de Moravia family, Richard Moray who lived about 1240. The Morays held the land until the early part of the 15th century, when it passed by marriage to the Kinnaird family. Alexander Kinnaird was the last of this line, and it was in his time, late 1694 or early 1695, that the final devastation of the estate took place, though the encroachment of the sand must have been a gradual process. The Culbin area was once considered the 'Granary of Moray'. Reports of invasions of blown sand occur from circa 1100 but the Barony was not overwhelmed until the period 1670-1695.

Period Notes
De Moravia family c1240; charter of 1586; devastation took place 1695/6.

BBC NEWS WEBSITE, , BBC NEWS WEBSITE, 16/06/14 (Bibliographic reference). SAB3784.

SHAW, L, 1798, HIST OF PROV OF MORAY, 211 (Bibliographic reference). SAB1625.

MACKINTOSH, CF, 1913, ANTIQUARIAN NOTES, 331-42 (Bibliographic reference). SAB1173.

STEERS, JA, 1937, GEOG JOURNAL 90, 500-8, 500-1,508 (Bibliographic reference). SAB1826.

O'BRIEN, R, n.d., THE CULBIN TRAIL, 4-6 (Bibliographic reference). SAB1361.

Record last edited

Aug 31 2022 4:40PM