Roybridge
Roybridge
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Location within the Lochaber area | |
OS grid reference | NN269807 |
Council area | |
Country | Scotland |
Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
Post town | Roy Bridge |
Postcode district | PH31 |
Dialling code | 01397 |
Police | Scotland |
Fire | Scottish |
Ambulance | Scottish |
UK Parliament | |
Scottish Parliament | |
Roybridge (Scottish Gaelic: Drochaid Ruaidh, 'the bridge over the Roy')[1] is a small village, that lies at the confluence of the rivers River Roy and River Spean, located three miles (five kilometres) east of Spean Bridge, in Kilmonivaig Parish, Inverness-shire, Scottish Highlands and is in the Highland administrative area.
Roybridge is on the A86 between Spean Bridge and Newtonmore, and has a station on the (former West Highland Railway) line, served by trains passing between Crianlarich and Fort William.
Mary MacKillop[edit]
Both of the parents of Australia's only recognised saint Mary MacKillop, lived in Roybridge, prior to emigrating to Australia.[2] MacKillop visited Roybridge in the 1870s, and St Margaret's, the local parish church of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Argyll and the Isles, now has a shrine to her.
Other notable people[edit]
- Peter Hope, 4th Baron Rankeillour (1935–2005), landowner and peer, lived at Achaderry House.[3]
- Joseph Toal, current bishop of Diocese of Motherwell.
References[edit]
- ^ Iain Mac an Tàilleir. "Placenames" (PDF). Scottish Parliament. Retrieved 28 November 2011.
- ^ McLaughlin, Martin (18 October 2010). "Saintly daughter of Scotland honoured". The Scotsman. Edinburgh. Retrieved 24 October 2010.
- ^ Dod's Parliamentary Companion, Issue 173 (Dod's Parliamentary Companion Limited, 1992), p. 258
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