Cairnie Burn is a stream that rises in the Mounth, or eastern range of the Grampian Mountains, north of Netherley, Aberdeenshire, Scotland.United Kingdom Ordnance Survey Map Landranger 45, Stonehaven and Banchory, 1:50,000 scale, 2004 Cairnie Burn is a generally northeast flowing watercourse that is a tributary to the Crynoch Burn. Cairnie Burn rises in the eastern part of the Durris Forest, east of the Elsick Mounth passage.

History Roman legions marched from Raedykes to Normandykes Roman Camp crossing Cairnie Burn in the Durris Forest as they sought higher ground evading the bogs of Red Moss and other low-lying mosses associated with the Burn of Muchalls. That march used the Elsick Mounth, one of the ancient trackways crossing the Mounth of the Grampian Mountains,C. Michael Hogan, Elsick Mounth, Megalithic Portal, editor: Andy Burnham lying west of Netherley.

In poetry An 1890 poem entitled The Auld House O' Gask by Caroline Oliphant took note of Cairnie Burn:Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, v. 150, ed. T. Cadell and W. Davis, 1891, England "that winds around the flowery bank of bonnie Cairnie Burn".

See also Muchalls Castle

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