Glen Tilt to Glen Fernate Drove Road Show path on map
Start location: A924, east of Straloch ( NO 051 638 )
End location: River Tilt, nr Falls of Tarf ( NN 985 798 )
Geographical area: Cairngorms National Park, Perth, Kinross and Stirling (part)
Path type: Drove Road
Path distance: 24km
Accessibility info: Suitable for pedestrians
Route Description
Our route description travels in the opposite direction to that taken by drovers.
Start on the A924, 0.5km east of Straloch at the access to Glenfernate Estate. Go north by Glenfernate Lodge up Gleann Fearnach for 7km to Daldhu. Continue generally north for a further 12km along the track to Fealar Lodge, then take a path west to Glen Tilt, reaching it 300m northeast of the Falls of Tarf. The main Glen Tilt track is reached by crossing the Allt Garbh Buidhe, which is usually straightforward but can be dangerous in spate.
Heritage Information
This old road is another track drovers took to get their cattle to the Tryst at Kirkmichael. The Old Statistical Account (1791-99) refers to Kirkmichael's annual fair - in the middle of the eighteenth century this was one of Scotland's principal cattle markets, lasting for several days and sometimes a week.
The route was mapped by Roy in his Military Survey 1747-55 and so must have been well-used at that time.
