Corrichie

Corrichie, a moor on the borders of Kincardine and Aberdeen shires, 15 miles W. of Aberdeen. Here on 28th October 1562 Queen Mary's half-brother, the Earl of Moray, defeated the Catholic Gordon, Earl of Huntly, who himself fell in the battle, while his two sons were taken prisoners. There is a rather poor ballad on the subject, in broad Aberdeenshire dialect, quite at variance with the facts of history, and first printed in Evans's Old Ballads (1777).