Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for Foffarty

Foffarty, a property in Kinnettles parish, Forfarshire, 3 miles SSW of Forfar. A Roman Catholic chapel, with manse and offices, was built here soon after the Reformation, on the margin of a den at the foot of Kincaldrum Hill; and, burned by a party of royal dragoons in 1745, remaincd in a roofless and ruinous condition for many years, till it was razed to the foundations in 1816.


(F.H. Groome, Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland (1882-4); © 2004 Gazetteer for Scotland)

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Feature Description: "a property"   (ADL Feature Type: "land parcels")
Administrative units: Kinettles ScoP       Angus ScoCnty

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