Craiglea, a hill (1737 feet), with a slate quarry, in Fowlis-Wester parish, Perthshire, on the Logiealmond estate, 6¾ miles NW of Methven Junction. The slate vein is of excellent quality; yields two kinds of slates, the one dark blue, the other of a sea-green hue; and has long been worked to the extent of above 1,200,000 slates a year.
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