Downies Cairn
Downies Cairn is a memorial in Aberdeen, Scotland. Downies Cairn is situated nearby to the archaeological site Mote Hill, palisaded settlement and cairn, as well as near Scottish Meadow.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Cathedral Church of St Machar and Mote Hill, palisaded settlement and cairn.
Cathedral Church of St Machar
Church
Photo: Martyn Gorman, CC BY-SA 2.0.
St Machar's Cathedral is a Church of Scotland church in Aberdeen, Scotland, located to the north of the city centre, in the former burgh of Old Aberdeen. Cathedral Church of St Machar is situated 1,300 feet east of Downies Cairn.
Mote Hill, palisaded settlement and cairn
Archaeological site
Photo: Watty62, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Mote Hill, palisaded settlement and cairn is an archaeological site, which is situated 460 feet east of Downies Cairn.
Seaton Park
Park
Photo: Colin Walker, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Seaton Park is a public park in the Old Aberdeen area of Aberdeen, Scotland. One of the city's biggest parks, it was bought by the city for use as a public park in 1947 from Major Malcolm Vivian Hay, a cryptographer during the First World War and a historian of Catholic and Jewish history. Seaton Park is situated 1,600 feet northeast of Downies Cairn.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Tillydrone and Donside Village.
Tillydrone
Suburb
Tillydrone is an area of Aberdeen, Scotland. Lying north of the city centre and slightly north-west of Old Aberdeen, it is roughly bounded by the River Don, St Machar Drive, and the main Aberdeen-Inverness railway line.
Donside Village
Neighborhood
Donside Village is a neighbourhood of Tillydrone in Aberdeen, Scotland.
Old Aberdeen
Suburb
Old Aberdeen is part of Aberdeen in Scotland. Old Aberdeen was originally a separate burgh, which was erected into a burgh of barony on 26 December 1489.
Downies Cairn
- Type: Memorial
- Inscription: “POPULARLY ASSOCIATED WITH THE TALE OF DOWNIE THE SACRIST STOOD FORMERLY AT BERRYDEN AND IN 1926 WAS MOVED TO THIS SITE ‘I CANNOT TELL HOW THE TRUTH MAY BE I SAY THE TALE AS TWAS SAID TO ME’”
- Category: historic site
- Location: Aberdeen, Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
57.17097° or 57° 10′ 16″ northLongitude
-2.1086° or 2° 6′ 31″ westOpen location code
9C9V5VCR+9HOpenStreetMap ID
node 3700846750OpenStreetMap feature
historic=memorial
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Scottish Meadow and Tillydrone Police Office.
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