Clunie

For people named Clunie, see Clunie (surname).
Clunie
Scottish Gaelic: Cluainidh
Clunie
 Clunie shown within Perth and Kinross
OS grid referenceNO109438
Council areaPerth and Kinross
Lieutenancy areaPerth and Kinross
CountryScotland
Sovereign stateUnited Kingdom
Post town BLAIRGOWRIE
Postcode district PH10
Dialling code 01250
Police Scottish
Fire Scottish
Ambulance Scottish
EU Parliament Scotland
UK ParliamentPerth and North Perthshire
Scottish ParliamentPerthshire North
List of places
UK
Scotland

Coordinates: 56°34′40″N 3°27′07″W / 56.577645°N 3.451953°W / 56.577645; -3.451953

Clunie Castle on the island in Loch of Clunie.

Clunie is a small settlement in Perthshire, Scotland, 4 miles west of Blairgowrie. It lies on the western shore of the Loch of Clunie. Near the village are the foundations of what is believed to have been a castle used by Kenneth MacAlpin, the first king of Scotland, as a base for hunting in the nearby royal forest of Clunie.

On a small island (formerly a crannog) in the loch stand the remains of Clunie Castle, a tower house of the Bishops of Dunkeld. The last pre-Reformation bishop, Robert Crichton, passed the property to his near relative, Robert Crichton, Lord Advocate of Scotland. His son James, the notable Scottish polymath better known as the Admirable Crichton, spent his childhood there.

Within the grounds of the parish church, rebuilt in 1840, stands a mausoleum with a romanesque doorway thought to be from an earlier 12th- or 13th-century church that stood on the same site. The church is now linked with those at Kinclaven and Caputh.

Clunie Primary School is now closed but the local hall survives with regular functions taking place.

Clunie is the birthplace of John James Rickard Macleod, co-recipient of the 1923 Nobel prize in Physiology or Medicine.

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