Haughs o’ Cromdale (Audio)

Traditional Scottish Songs - Haughs o’ Cromdale A battle took place on 30 April, 1690, in which a Jacobite force was routed on the low ground (haughs) at Cromdale in Morayshire by government forces. James Hogg, the Ettrick shepherd, later wrote a song about the defeat which became very popular. But then an unknown bard, unhappy with the story of a lost battle, added an exaggerated description of Montrose’s victory over the Covenanters at Auldearn in 1645. Despite the muddled history and the fact