Place:


Dunalastair  Perthshire

 

In 1882-4, Frances Groome's Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland described Dunalastair like this:

Dun Alastair or Mount Alexander, a fine modern Scottish Baronial mansion in Fortingall parish, Perthshire, on the left bank of the Tummel, 3 miles E of Kinloch Rannoch, and 17 W of Pitlochry. Its predecessor was the seat of the Struan Robertsons, and it owes much of its ornamental planting to the Jacobite poetchieftain of Clan Donnachie, Alexander Robertson (16701749), the prototype of Scott's ` Baron of Bradwardine. ' The present house was built by Gen. Sir John Macdonald, K. C. B. (1788-1866). There is a post and telegraph office of Dun Alastair. See Dalchosnie.

Additional information about this locality is available for Fortingall

Dunalastair through time

Dunalastair is now part of Perth and Kinross district. Click here for graphs and data of how Perth and Kinross has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Dunalastair itself, go to Units and Statistics.

How to reference this page:

GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Dunalastair, in Perth and Kinross and Perthshire | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.

URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/26996

Date accessed: 28th March 2024


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