Clunie

For people named Clunie, see Clunie (surname).

Clunie
Scottish Gaelic: Cluainidh
Clunie  Clunie shown within Perth and Kinross
OS grid reference	NO109438
Council area	Perth and Kinross
Lieutenancy area	Perth and Kinross
Country	Scotland
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	BLAIRGOWRIE
Postcode district	PH10
Dialling code	01250
Police	Scottish
Fire	Scottish
Ambulance	Scottish
EU Parliament	Scotland
UK Parliament	Perth and North Perthshire
Scottish Parliament	Perthshire North
List of places UK Scotland

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.

External links

• Clunie on the Gazetteer for Scotland
• Early morning at Loch Clunie