Bothy near its mouth at the North Sea. Another Scottish example from the peak of the salmon fishing in the 1890s is the fisherman's bothy at the mouth of the Burn of Muchalls. A further example is the Lairig Leacach Bothy in Lochaber, not far to the east of Fort William. The best-known estate bothy is the one in the Royal Gardens at Windsor Castle, which could house about 25 people. It was used by the improver gardeners and disabled ex-servicemen who worked on the estate. Most reasonably-sized estates had a bothy, which housed single men only; in fact, if they
Corrour Bothy is used as a name for the locality as well as specifically as a name for the bothy itself, the name being derived from Coire Odhar according to , who continues: In the author gives the local pronunciation as "Corower", but without explanation. However in the section "Hints on Gaelic pronunciation" appears to suggest the final-vowels of "Coire" (and corrie) are dropped to give "kor", and that the "dh" in "Odhar" are silent because they follow a vowel—giving what sounds like "kor-Oar", or like the "cor-ower" suggested in . In spite of the earlier work and his understanding of Gaelic—and