Old Deer

Old Deer (Gaelic: Deir ) is a village in the Scottish unitary authority Aberdeenshire. It lies about 16 km west of Peterhead and southwest of Fraserburgh on the north bank of the Ugie.

Columba of Iona founded in the 6th century a monastery at the site of the later Old Deer. There was written the Book of Deer between the 9th and 12th centuries, the oldest written testimony of the Gaelic language in Scotland. In 1219 the Cistercian monastery of Deer was built a few hundred meters from the ruins exist today. Between 1845 and 1915 the distillery produced Glenaden in Old Deer whiskey.