The Cabrach (Scottish Gaelic: A' Chabrach, A' Chabraich) is an estate and largely depopulated rural community in Moray, Scotland.
[12] Photographs of the Cabrach from 2019 confirm that many abandoned farm houses still stand.
Much of the population had been lost in the first decades of the 20th century when industrialization drew people to cities, and because of deaths during WWI.
[13][14] A 2018 news report explains that "an extraordinarily large proportion of men and boys ... died, not just in battle, but from the wider effects of war, such as illnesses from which they had no immunity".
[15][16] The Cabrach Trust was planning to create a Heritage Centre, to present the history of the estate, "memories of the past", of an area which is now "sparsely populated".
[17] The Heritage Manager of The Trust made this comment to a reporter in March 2019: "The Cabrach has played a central role in Scottish history; it was the home of Jacobite rebels, its illegal whisky trade led to the Scotch whisky industry we know today, and its people fought in the country’s great wars but all this was in danger of being forgotten".
Built in the 1960s, the facility closed in 1992, and remains in "remarkably good condition", though stripped of its contents, such as beds, canned food and water, instruments and identification charts.
It lies on the northernmost fringe of the Cairngorms National Park at the intersection of the countryside roads that connect Speyside to the north, Aberdeen to the east and, Donside to the south.