Iearns families of bBaldowy/b, Boyce, Burnet, Carnegie, Dempster, Douglas, Gardyne, Guthrie, Irvine, Ochterlony, Ogilvie, Scrimgeour and others appear largely among the Abbey writs at a later period. ... To pass from tradition to written documents, we learn from the Chartulary that at or previous to the foundation of Arbroath Abbey the bestate/b of Conon, consisting of this hill and its declivities, belonged to a chief bearing the Gaelic name of Dufsyth. ...
