Tullich (, ) is a village in
Aberdeenshire
Aberdeenshire (; ) is one of the 32 Subdivisions of Scotland#council areas of Scotland, council areas of Scotland.
It takes its name from the Shires of Scotland, historic county of Aberdeenshire (historic), Aberdeenshire, which had substantial ...
, Scotland. It is known as the birthplace of
St. Nathalan and also as the site of some noted
Pict
PICT is a graphics file format introduced on the original Apple Macintosh computer as its standard metafile format. It allows the interchange of graphics (both bitmapped and vector), and some limited text support, between Mac applications, an ...
ish stones.
The church is the site of a ruined church, built in around 1400. It has been suggested that the medieval church was constructed on the same site as a 7th-century chapel established by
Nathalan
Saint Nathalan (or Nachlan), (died 678) is a saint in the Roman Catholic Church, who was active in the district now known as Aberdeenshire, Scotland.
Life
Nathalan was born in the village of Tullich, for which he was eventually appointed as bisho ...
.
References
Further reading
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Ordnance Survey
The Ordnance Survey (OS) is the national mapping agency for Great Britain. The agency's name indicates its original military purpose (see Artillery, ordnance and surveying), which was to map Scotland in the wake of the Jacobite rising of ...
Landranger Series: sheets 37 & 44 (2000)
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Clan MacPhail
External links
Aberdeenshire Council official site: Tullich Kirkyard (2006)
Villages in Aberdeenshire
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