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Finegand
Sign in to savethumb|left|Broughdearg stones, near Finegand Finegand is a farming hamlet located in eastern Perth and Kinross, Scotland and also refers historically to the portion of lands surrounding the hamlet. Finegand is located in Glen Shee and encompasses the lands east of the Shee Water adjacent to a burn which joins it about below the Spittal and about north of Blairgowrie.
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It is catalogued under topics including Clan Chattan and Villages in Perth and Kinross.
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thumb|left|Broughdearg stones, near Finegand Finegand is a farming hamlet located in eastern Perth and Kinross, Scotland and also refers historically to the portion of lands surrounding the hamlet. Finegand is located in Glen Shee and encompasses the lands east of the Shee Water adjacent to a burn which joins it about below the Spittal and about north of Blairgowrie.
The name is a corruption of the Gaelic Fèith nan Ceann, meaning "the burn of the heads" and takes its name from an event, which according to legend, took place sometime in the 15th century. Local history tells of 15th century tax collectors sent repeatedly to Glenshee, probably by the oppressive Earl of Atholl, to collect ever-increasing tax from the highlanders "in whatever manner they deemed most effective", usually at the point of a sword. On one occasion, the glensmen having become so enraged at the tax collectors' pillaging, not only killed them all, but cut off their heads and threw them into the burn.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Finegand” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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