Name: | Abernethy | CISP No: | ABNTY |
Place: | Abernethy | Grid Ref: | NO 1900 1640 (GB) |
Parish: | inc | Stones: | 1 |
County: | Perthshire , Scotland | Saint(s): | none |
Site Type: | ecclesiastical |
Forsyth/1996, 2--4: `Documentary sources indicate that Abernethy, situated near the confluence of the Tay and the Earn was one of the principal ecclesiastical sites of early medieval Scotland. The name, significantly, is P-Celtic, attested in the Pictish Chronicle as Abur-nethige. .. Though Abernethy appears to have been marginalized after the elevation of Dunkeld, it remained an important and wealthy ecclesiastical centre. By the early twelfth century the house there consisted of a community of celí dé with a number of ordinary clerici'.