THERE ARE two theories regarding how Forfar, the (former) County Town of Angus, came by its name. One belief is that it is from the Gaelic ‘for fuar’, meaning a cold place, while the other means the slope of watching, derived from ‘foither’ meaning slope and ‘faire’ which means ‘watching’.
Imagine almost the entire site of present-day Forfar covered by a huge loch and you see the area as it once was. The loch of Forfar stretched from Lunanhead in the east towards Glamis in the west. Great forests rose to the north and stretched far into the Angus glens. All that remains today is what you can see between the Leisure Centre and the Kirrriemuir/Glamis bypass, but a keen eye can still pick out the banks of the loch in and around many spots throughout the town.
The Leisure Centre is erected upon reclaimed marshland while William Low’s supermarket is built on a bank of the loch. Other banks can be seen rising from the East Greens to Victoria Road and to the south and east of Goosecroft. Indeed, when men were digging the foundations for the houses of Goosecroft back in the early 1950s, the shell of a wooden canoe was unearthed. If I recall correctly, it was taken off to a museum in Dundee.
Balmashanner Monument
The 55ft high tower was completed in 1921 to the design of architect Thomas Souter as a war memorial to those who fell in the first World War, and is very similar to the Airlie Monument on Tulloch Hill at the foot of Glen Prosen.
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