Murthly

Murthly is a village in Perth and Kinross, Scotland. It is located on the south bank of the River Tay, 7 kilometres (4.3 mi) south-east of Dunkeld, and 15 kilometres (9.3 mi) north of Perth. Perth District Asylum, later known as Murthly Hospital, opened in the village in 1864 and was closed in 1985. A stone circle is lcoated within the village, in the former grounds of the hospital.^[1] The village formerly had a railway station on the Perth and Dunkeld Railway.

The 15th-century Murthly Castle is located 3 kilometres (1.9 mi) to the west. An ambitious 19th-century replacement castle was never finished and was completely demolished.^[2] Within the castle grounds is the Chapel of St Anthony the Eremite, a Catholic chapel designed by James Gillespie Graham and A W N Pugin in 1846, attached to an earlier 16th-century chapel.^[3]

References

1. ^ "Murthly Hospital, Stone Circle". CANMORE. RCAHMS. http://canmore.rcahms.gov.uk/en/site/28591/details/murthly+hospital/. 
2. ^ "Murthly Castle: Listed Building Report". Historic Scotland. http://hsewsf.sedsh.gov.uk/hslive/hsstart?P_HBNUM=11146. 
3. ^ "Chapel Of St Anthony The Eremite, Murthly: Listed Building Report". Historic Scotland. http://hsewsf.sedsh.gov.uk/hslive/hsstart?P_HBNUM=13460. 

External links

• Murthly Castle

Coordinates: 56°31′49″N 3°27′50″W / 56.53028°N 3.46389°W / 56.53028; -3.46389