WELCOME TO BLAIRLOGIE WEBSITE
We hope that you will enjoy the updated Blairlogie Website, with its added facilities which we hope will make your visit more rewarding.
The website is updated regularly and you will find that the following featured articles have been added:
The January 2019 Bugle has been added to the website, please click HERE to read the bugle.
Stirling Antiquary Volume 1 and 3
The Stirling Antiquary are a collection of stories about Stirling and the area, Volume 1 contains a great wee story about Blairlogie Castle and the First History of Stirling and much more including items concerning the genealogy of the area. Volume 2 is awanting but Volume 3 contains Stirling's local links with Robert Burns and also lots of genealogical material. The two volumes are available for downloading at stirling_antiquary_volume_1_~_1893.pdf and Volume 3
The Stirling Sentinel Portrait Gallery
This is a wonderful book if you are interested in the old Stirling worthies. It contains lots of great photographs of important people who lived or operated in Stirling and the pictures are accompanied by a short biography of the individual. This book is available from: Portrait Gallery
Robert Burns in Stirling
This is a wonderful book for both those who love Burns and those who are interested in Stirling. It is available from:
robert_burns_in_stirlingshire_~_1899.pdf
The Archives database can be found at the Archive page where you can download the PDF files. Every effort has been taken to maintain accuracy, but errors may be present due to transcription or typing.
Please use the Contact Us section to send any feedback concerning the site and about what could be done to make your visit more enjoyable. During the summer we have had numerous people contacting the Archives Team and a number have visited the Archives to view items of interest. We are always delighted to show people the village and the archives. Please click here to send a message or request.
We think Blairlogie is such an exceptional place that we want you to have a virtual share of it with us.
This is Blairlogie from the south, with the mountain of Dumyat, in the winter of 2009-2010
Blairlogie
Blairlogie is quite a wee place, less than a village: in Scots it’s a clachan or, in English, a hamlet. It is the earliest of Scotland’s officially designated Outstanding Conservation Areas. It’s now the centre of the Logie Community area, which is roughly the Parish of Logie, whose centre was the old Logie Kirk, now ruined and replaced by the 19th century Logie Parish Church.
Beautiful Blairlogie
This beautiful place sits 5 miles North across the Forth from Stirling, at the foot of the magnificent scarp of the Ochil Hills, close to the Abbey Craig with the towering national monument to William Wallace. It’s partly on the A91, the new toll road built in 1820, and partly on the parallel old Hillfoots back road ( at one time “the King’s high road to Stirling”)
Farming and Health
The village is very picturesque, with its eclectic cluster of white houses mainly of the 18th and 19th centuries, though some are older, and a few newer. Many have the red pan-tiles roofs of the period.
Right above the village is Dumyat (Dum-EYE-at) with the iron age fort of the hill-dwelling Myaeti people: there is also the Carlie’s Craig, now called Witches’ Craig, where in past times the alleged witches were made to fly off the rock face…an earlier form of execution.
There are arable fields and pasture and apple and pear orchards all around. The village used to be a health spa, where delicate folk came for the air, the fresh water and the goats’ milk from the herds kept here.
Beautiful Blairlogie
This beautiful place sits 5 miles North across the Forth from Stirling, at the foot of the magnificent scarp of the Ochil Hills, close to the Abbey Craig with the towering national monument to William Wallace. It’s partly on the A91, the new toll road built in 1820, and partly on the parallel old Hillfoots back road ( at one time “the King’s high road to Stirling”)
Farming and Health
The village is very picturesque, with its eclectic cluster of white houses mainly of the 18th and 19th centuries, though some are older, and a few newer. Many have the red pan-tiles roofs of the period.
Right above the village is Dumyat (Dum-EYE-at) with the iron age fort of the hill-dwelling Myaeti people: there is also the Carlie’s Craig, now called Witches’ Craig, where in past times the alleged witches were made to fly off the rock face…an earlier form of execution.
There are arable fields and pasture and apple and pear orchards all around. The village used to be a health spa, where delicate folk came for the air, the fresh water and the goats’ milk from the herds kept here.
Kirk Green Road, Blairlogie 1898.
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Kirk Green Road as it is today.
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There are in the village itself about 30 houses, with as many more houses and farms outlying in the community area. The total population is about 200. Most people nowadays don’t work in agriculture and mining, the former staples: variety rules these days, and many commute.
Blairlogie is probably what the media call tight-knit (i.e. friendly and helpful), and the community life retains a lot of how small places used to work. The various organizations (sometimes of the same people with different hats) help to keep this way alive.
Blairlogie is probably what the media call tight-knit (i.e. friendly and helpful), and the community life retains a lot of how small places used to work. The various organizations (sometimes of the same people with different hats) help to keep this way alive.