Pool of Muckhart

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Pool of Muckhart
Pool of Muckhart
Pool of Muckhart
Coordinates 56 ° 11 ′  N , 3 ° 37 ′  W Coordinates: 56 ° 11 ′  N , 3 ° 37 ′  W
Pool of Muckhart (Scotland)
Pool of Muckhart
Pool of Muckhart
Residents 520 (1991, with Yetts of Muckhart)
administration
Post town DOLLAR
ZIP code section FK14
prefix 01259
Part of the country Scotland
Council area Clackmannanshire
British Parliament Ochil and South Perthshire
Scottish Parliament Clackmannanshire and Dunblane

Pool of Muckhart ( Scottish Gaelic Poll Mhuc-Àird ) is a settlement in the east of the Scottish Council Area Clackmannanshire and the traditional Scottish county of Perthshire . It is located about eight kilometers northwest of Dunfermline and 13 km southwest of Perth at the foot of the Ochil Hills and belongs to the Hillfoots Villages . The Firth of Forth flows about eight miles, the Devon about two kilometers south. Pool of Muckhart is connected to the road network by the A91 . Together with the Yetts of Muckhart to the west, it forms the Parish Muckhart . In 1991 this had a total of 520 inhabitants.

The Castleton Cupstone stands on Castleton Hill, west of the Pool of Muckhart -

Individual evidence

  1. Muckhart. In: Francis H. Groome: Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland: A Survey of Scottish Topography, Statistical, Biographical and Historical. Volume 5: (Lib - Pet). Thomas C. Jack, Grange Publishing Works, Edinburgh et al. 1884, p. 80.
  2. entry. In: Gazetteer for Scotland. 2011.