Dye Water, a stream of Strachan parish, Kincardine shire, rising, at an altitude of 2000 feet, on the south-eastern slope of Mount Battock (2558 feet), near the meeting-point of Kincardine, Forfar, and Aberdeen shires. Thence it winds 7½ miles eastward and 7¼ miles north-by0eastward, till, after a total descent of 1740 feet, it falls into the Feugh, ½ mile WSW of Strachan church. Traversing a rocky Highland glen (Glen Dye), it is subject to sudden and violent freshets, and abounds in trout of about ¼ lb. each.—Ord. Sur., sh. 66, 1871.

(F.H. Groome, Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland (1882-4); © 2004 Gazetteer for Scotland)