Beauly Priory

Beauly Priory was a Valliscaulian monastic community located at "Insula de Achenbady", now Beauly, Inverness-shire. It was probably founded in 1230. It is not known for certain who the founder was, different sources giving Alexander II of Scotland, John Byset, and both.

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Type: Building
Description: monastery in Highland, Scotland, UK
Also known as: “Beauly Priory,priory and burial ground”

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Beauly Library and Beauly railway station.

Beauly Library

Library

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Beauly Library is situated 1,200 feet southwest of Beauly Priory.

Beauly railway station

Railway station

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Beauly railway station is a railway station in the village of Beauly, in the Highland council area of Scotland. Located on the Far North Line, it is 10 miles 12 chains down the line from Inverness, and is the first intermediate station on the line, before reaching Muir of Ord. Beauly railway station is situated 3,300 feet southwest of Beauly Priory.

Muir of Ord railway station

Railway station

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Muir of Ord railway station is a railway station on the Kyle of Lochalsh Line and the Far North Line, serving the village of Muir of Ord in the Highland council area of Scotland. Muir of Ord railway station is situated 2½ miles north of Beauly Priory.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Beauly and Ruilick.

Beauly

Town

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Beauly is a village in Scotland's Highland area, on the River Beauly, 12 miles west of Inverness by the Far North railway line. The town is historically within Kilmorack Parish of the County of Inverness.

Ruilick

Hamlet

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Ruilick is a hamlet.

Kirkhill

Village

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Kirkhill is a small village and civil parish in the Highland council area of Scotland. It is 10 miles west of Inverness and 2 miles southeast of Beauly, close to the south opening of the Beauly Firth. big up callum craig and carlin vantonder The village of Kirkhill encompasses the historic parish of Wardlaw to its north, the two areas merging in 1618. Kirkhill is situated 2 miles east of Beauly Priory.

Beauly Priory

Categories: monastery and historic site
Location: Highland Council, Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude

57.48469° or 57° 29′ 5″ north

Longitude

-4.45767° or 4° 27′ 28″ west

Elevation

23 feet (7 metres)

Operator

Historic Scotland

Open location code

9C9QFGMR+VW

OpenStreetMap ID

way 41072415

OpenStreetMap feature

building=priory

OpenStreetMap feature

historic=priory

GeoNames ID

11497746

Wikidata ID

Q2743143

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In Other Languages

From Dutch to Spanish—“Beauly Priory” goes by many names.

Dutch: “Beauly Priory”
German: “Beauly Priory”
Spanish: “Priorato de Beauly”

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