Old Photograph Ythan Terrace Ellon Scotland

Old photograph of houses and children on Ythan Terrace in Ellon, Aberdeenshire, Scotland. Ellon is in the ancient region of Formartine. Its name is believed to derive from the Gaelic term Eilean, an island, on account of the presence of an island in the River Ythan, which offered a convenient fording point. After Robert the Bruce defeated Comyn's son, John, at the Battle of Barra on 24 December 1307, there followed the Harrying of Buchan and Ellon Castle was destroyed by fire. A stone bearing the Kennedy arms is set into the ruins.



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