Petty, or Pettie is a place and parish in

Highland Highlands or uplands are areas of high elevation such as a mountainous region, elevated mountainous plateau or high hills. Generally speaking, upland (or uplands) refers to ranges of hills, typically from up to while highland (or highlands) is ...

, Scotland. The village of Petty is about north east of

Inverness Inverness (; from the gd, Inbhir Nis , meaning "Mouth of the River Ness"; sco, Innerness) is a city in the Scottish Highlands. It is the administrative centre for The Highland Council and is regarded as the capital of the Highlands. Histori ...

. The parishes of Petty and Bracholy, were united prior to the Reformation. The original parish church was dedicated to

Saint Columba Columba or Colmcille; gd, Calum Cille; gv, Colum Keeilley; non, Kolban or at least partly reinterpreted as (7 December 521 – 9 June 597 AD) was an Irish abbot and missionary evangelist credited with spreading Christianity in what is toda ...

. William, Earl of Ross sacked the churches of Petty and Bracholy in 1281. The present parish church was built in 1839.

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*The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland (1868) Populated places in the County of Nairn Civil parishes of Scotland {{Highland-geo-stub

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