Where is Blairingone?

Blairingone is in Scottish Highlands, in the United Kingdom — coordinates 56.1530°, -3.6371°.

Natural landmarks · Scottish Highlands

Blairingone

Also known as: Blàr nan Con

Blairingone in Scotland Islands, United Kingdom.

A977 approaching Blairingone Primary School - geograph.org.uk - 4601416 — Elliott Simpson — CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons licence

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Typical visit: 1 h–2 h

Blairingone is a place of interest in Scotland Islands, United Kingdom — drawn from open-data sources for visitor reference. See the linked Wikipedia article for the full description.

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Blairingone (from Scottish Gaelic: Blàr nan Con "moor of the hounds") is a village in Perth and Kinross, Scotland. It lies on the A977 road at its intersection with Vicar's Bridge Road near the extreme south-westerly point of the region, approximately 3 miles (5 kilometres) southeast of Dollar. The Arndean agricultural estate lies about 1 mile (1.5 kilometres) northeast, near the River Devon.

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Background

History

Blairingone is located in the parish of Fossoway and is part of the former county of Kinross-shire. It is the last village in the county of Perth and Kinross. Blairingone in Gaelic may be blàr an gobha or blàr an con, field or muir of the smith or dogs. Materials such as limestone, alum, iron-ore, whinstone and sulphur, as well as coal were mined here. The Fossoway area and over into Fife contained the most ancient coal mining operations in Scotland. During the 1700s a waggonway complex included a track from Blairingone for carrying coal which also connected the North Fife coal fields and the limeburners at Limekilns on the Forth of Forth. The monks from Culross Abbey obtained their coal…

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