Aberlemno ( gd, Obar Leamhnach, IPA:
ˆopəɾˈʎɛunÉ™x is a
parish
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and small village in the
Scottish council area {{Unreferenced, date=May 2019, bot=noref (GreenC bot)
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of
Angus
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. It is noted for three large carved
Pictish stone
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s (and one fragment) dating from the 7th and 8th centuries
AD (
Historic Scotland
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); the stones can be viewed at any time in spring-autumn, but are covered by wooden boxes in the winter to prevent frost damage. Two stones (and the fragment) stand by the B9134
Forfar
Forfar ( sco, Farfar, gd, Baile Fharfair) is the county town of Angus, Scotland and the administrative centre for Angus Council, with a new multi-million pound office complex located on the outskirts of the town. As of 2021, the town has a pop ...
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Brechin
Brechin (; gd, Breichin) is a city and former Royal burgh in Angus, Scotland. Traditionally Brechin was described as a city because of its cathedral and its status as the seat of a pre-Reformation Roman Catholic diocese (which continues today ...
road, the Kirkyard Stone stands in the nearby graveyard of the parish church.
The parish of Aberlemno had a population of 544 at the
2011 Census.
[Census of Scotland 2011, Table KS101SC – Usual Resident Population, published by National Records of Scotland. Website http://www.scotlandscensus.gov.uk/ retrieved Apr 2018. See “Standard Outputsâ€, Table KS101SC, Area type: Civil Parish 1930, Area: Aberlemno]
A
genus
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of fossil plants first found in a nearby quarry is named ''
Aberlemnia'' in honour of the location.
A notable Scottish-American poet, engineer, and editor,
James Mackintosh Kennedy, was born in Aberlemno in 1848, and developed his interest in literature through books lent to him by the Aberlemno church.
The Parish was the location of a
Royal Observer Corps
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monitoring bunker between 1961 and 1968. It remains mostly intact and as of 2015, it was being restored.
Sculptured Stones
Aberlemno is notable for the presence of four
early Medieval
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standing stones, as well as a fifth that is currently on display at
McManus Galleries
The McManus: Dundee's Art Gallery and Museum is a Gothic Revival-style building, located in the centre of Dundee, Scotland. The building houses a museum and art gallery with a collection of fine and decorative art as well as a natural history co ...
in
Dundee.
See also
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List of places in Angus
''Map of places in Angus compiled from this list''
This List of places in Angus is a list of links for any town, village, hamlet, castle, golf course, historic house, nature reserve, reservoir, river, and other place of interest in the Angus cou ...
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Villages in Angus, Scotland
Pictish stones
Archaeological sites in Angus, Scotland