Cowie, Aberdeenshire

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Cowie is a village in Aberdeenshire

Location and coordinates are for the approximate centre of Cowie within this administrative area. Geographic features and populated places may cross administrative borders.

Cowie in historic gazetteers

Gazetteer of the British Isles (Edinburgh: Bartholomew, 1887). John Bartholomew

Cowie, rivulet, fishing vil. and harb., seat, and ruined castle and chapel (Kirk of Cowie), Fetteresso par., Kincardineshire. Cowie Water flows 13 miles E., and falls into Stonehaven Bay at Stonehaven. The vil. and harb. are ¾ mile N. of Stonehaven; adjacent is Cowie House. The ruins of the Castle of Cowie, built by Malcolm Canmore, are on a rock overlooking the sea.

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