Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for Rossie Priory

Rossie Priory, the princely seat of Lord Kinnaird in Inchture parish, E Perthshire, 3 5/8 miles N of Inchture station, this being 7 ¾ miles WSW of Dundee. Standing 132 feet above sea-level, on the south-eastern slope of Rossie Hill (567 feet), it commands an extensive and very brilliant view; succeeded a previous mansion, called Drimmie House, within the limits of Longforgan parish; and was erected in 1807-17, from designs by Mr Atkinson, by the eighth Lord Kinnaird. It is a superb monastic-looking pile, spacious and elegant within, and of imposing aspect without; contains a valuable collection of antiquities, chiefly Roman; and has pleasure-grounds, gardens, and policies of great extent and singular beauty. The barony of Kinnaird in the Gowrie district was conferred in 1170 on Radulphus Rufus, whose descendant, Reginald de Kinnaird, in 1399 acquired the lands of Inchture through marriage with Marjory, daughter and heiress of Sir John Kirkaldy. Their descendant, George-Patrick Kinnaird, for his loyalty to the house of Stuart was knighted by Charles II. in 1661, and raised to the Scottish peerage in 1682 as Baron Kinnaird of Inchture. The Hon. Douglas James William Kinnaird (1788-1830) was an eminent banker, the friend of Byron and Sheridan. Arthur Fitzgerald Kinnaird, present and tenth Lord (b. 1814; suc. 1878), was Liberal M.P. for Perth 1837-39 and 1852-78. He holds 7579 acres in the shire, valued at £15, 460 per annum.—Ord. Sur., sh. 48, 1868.


(F.H. Groome, Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland (1882-4); © 2004 Gazetteer for Scotland)

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Feature Description: "the princely seat of Lord Kinnaird"   (ADL Feature Type: "residential sites")
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