have been uncovered and the primary school is reputed to have been built on the site of an old graveyard.

Airlie also contains one of the finest examples of a Pictish souterrain in Scotland, with the carving of a snake clearly visible in the ceiling.

The song commemorates the burning of the castle (some of the stonework is still black) by the Earl of Argyll, claiming to act on behalf of the anti-royalists, while the earl was away fighting for the Jacobite cause.

However, it is also claimed that Forter Castle in Glen Isla was the "bonnie hoose" destroyed in 1640.

It is also mentioned in the song Wha'll be King but Charlie?, as performed by The Corries, presumably because it is a good rhyme for "Chairlie".