Tullibardine is a location in

Perth and Kinross Perth and Kinross ( sco, Pairth an Kinross; gd, Peairt agus Ceann Rois) is one of the 32 council areas of Scotland and a Lieutenancy Area. It borders onto the Aberdeenshire, Angus, Argyll and Bute, Clackmannanshire, Dundee, Fife, Highland an ...

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, which gives its name to a village, a castle and a grant of nobility. Strathallan Village Hall, Tullibardine - geograph

The village of Tullibardine is a settlement of approximately forty dwellings about southwest of

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. It lies in the

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of Blackford, and the nearest town is

Auchterarder Auchterarder (; gd, Uachdar Àrdair, meaning Upper Highland) is a small town located north of the Ochil Hills in Perth and Kinross, Scotland, and home to the Gleneagles Hotel. The High Street of Auchterarder gave the town its popular name of " ...

, to the south.

Tullibardine Castle Tullibardine Castle was a castle located in the village of Tullibardine, north of Auchterarder in Perth and Kinross, Scotland. History The lands of Tullibardine passed to the Murray family after Ada de Strathearn, the wife of William Murray, ...

was a medieval fortification on a low eminence west of the village. Little is known about it and it no longer exists. The castle was built by the

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in the late 13th to early 14th century, after it had extended its holdings south from its heartland in

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. The castle predates the nearby chapel, which is dated to 1446. The castle was dismantled in 1747, following the

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, and was completely demolished in 1833. Tullibardine Chapel 20090616

Tullibardine Chapel was built in the 1446 by David Murray of Tullibardine as a family chapel and burial site, and members of the Murray family were buried there until 1900. The chapel has remained unaltered since the 16th century.

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came to Tullibardine in September 1575, as the guest of Sir William Murray,

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. Sir John Murray was a favoured courtier of

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, who came to the wedding of Murray's daughter Lilias and John Grant of Freuchie at Tullibardine on 21 June 1591.W. Boyd & H. Meikle, ''Calendar State Papers Scotland'', vol. 10 (Edinburgh, 1936), pp. 533–5: Michael Pearce, 'Anna of Denmark: Fashioning a Danish Court in Scotland', ''The Court Historian'', 24:2 (2019) p. 149. Murray was promoted to Earl of Tullibardine in the peerage of Scotland in 1606, and to a

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in 1696. A branch of the family became the

Earls of Atholl The Mormaer or Earl of Atholl was the title of the holder of a medieval comital lordship straddling the highland province of Atholl (''Ath Fodhla''), now in northern Perthshire. Atholl is a special Mormaerdom, because a King of Atholl is repor ...

, then

Dukes of Atholl Duke of Atholl, named for Atholl in Scotland, is a title in the Peerage of Scotland held by the head of Clan Murray. It was created by Queen Anne in 1703 for John Murray, 2nd Marquess of Atholl, with a special remainder to the heir male of ...

, and the title "Marquess of Tullibardine" remains the title of the Atholl heir. The most notable Lords of Tullibardine were William Murray, a leading figure of the 1715 and 1719 Jacobite rebellions, and his brother George, a leader in 1745. In modern times, Tullibardine was served by a station on the Crieff Junction Railway, later part of the Caledonian and then the

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railways. The station, which opened in 1856, was closed in 1964. The name is now used by the Tullibardine distillery in Blackford, which opened in 1949, and to several of their brands of

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