Aberdalgie (

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: ''Obar Dheilgidh'', 'Confluence of the Thorn-Stream') is a small village in the Scottish council area of

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. It is southwest of

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, and lies between the B9112 road, to the north, and the

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, to the south. Milltown Burn and Cotton Burn streams meet in the village centre, The village contains Aberdalgie Parish Church, the present building of which dates to 1773. The historic

Dupplin Castle Dupplin Castle is a country house and former castle in Perth and Kinross, Scotland, situated to the west of Aberdalgie and northeast of Forteviot and Dunning. It overlooks Strath Earn. The earliest known owner of the castle was Sir William Ol ...

is east of the village. The

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of Aberdalgie takes its name from the village, which had a population of 402 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 Outputs", Table KS101SC, Area type: Civil Parish 1930, Area: Aberdalgie

Notable landmarks

Parish church

The current Parish Church of Aberdalgie is dated 1773, but an earlier building is believed to have originally dated to the pre-

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period. In 1618 it became the parish church of both Aberdalgie and Dupplin, when the parishes united. It was designated a Category B-

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in 1971. The T-plan church features two large centre round-arched windows and doors with circular windows on either side. In 1929 the church interior was given a major renovation by Sir R.S. Lorimer. Aberdalgie churchyard contains the family vault where numerous medieval Chiefs of

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including the first three Lords Oliphant are buried. Prominent among them is Sir William Oliphant, the resolute Governor of

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when it was defended against

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of England in 1304, during the

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. Sir William's son Walter married Elizabeth, daughter of Robert I and sister of David II. Other people buried here include the

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and

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Baron Forteviot and author Norma Octavia Lorimer (1863-1948).

Dupplin Castle

lies within the parish. The earliest known owner of the castle was Sir William Oliphant in the late 13th century. Dupplin was sold after some four hundred years by the 5th Lord Oliphant (who, per the diploma registered under the Great Seal, 10 March 1640, was also Lord Aberdalgie and Lord Dupplin) in 1623. The castle was destroyed in 1461 and rebuilt. It was again rebuilt in 1688, though retained its earlier tower and some remnants from the previous castle. A fire gutted the castle in 1827, prompting a full rebuilding and restoration. The current building is a house, completed in 1970. Timber from Aberdalgie was harvested by

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and employed in 1547 during the war of the

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for the stocks of guns and cannon used at the

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, ''Accounts of the Treasurer'', vol. 9 (Edinburgh, 1911), p. 104.

References

{{authority control Villages in Perth and Kinross