Cawdor

Cawdor, a village in Nairnshire, 5½ miles SW. of Nairn. Cawdor Castle, near by, the seat of the Earl of Cawdor, was founded in 1454, but is one of the three places which tradition has assigned as the scene of King Duncan's murder by Macbeth in 1040. A series of papers from the charter-room at Cawdor was edited by Cosmo Innes under the title of The Book of the Thanes of Cawdor (1859). See CAMPBELL.