Aberlemno

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title: "Aberlemno" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["villages-in-angus,-scotland", "archaeological-sites-in-angus,-scotland"] description: "Parish and small village in Angus, Scotland" topic_path: "philosophy" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aberlemno" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0

::summary Parish and small village in Angus, Scotland ::

::data[format=table title="Infobox UK place"]

Field	Value
country	Scotland
official_name	Aberlemno
gaelic_name	Obar Leamhnach
population	544
population_ref	(2011 Census)
os_grid_reference	NO521558
map_type	Scotland
coordinates
unitary_scotland	Angus
lieutenancy_scotland	Angus
constituency_westminster	Angus and Perthshire Glens
constituency_scottish_parliament	Angus North and Mearns
post_town	FORFAR
postcode_district	DD8
postcode_area	DD
dial_code	01307
static_image_name	Aberlemnokirk.jpg
static_image_caption	Aberlemno Kirk
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|country = Scotland |official_name = Aberlemno |gaelic_name = Obar Leamhnach |scots_name = | population = 544 | population_ref = (2011 Census) |os_grid_reference = NO521558 |map_type = Scotland |coordinates = |unitary_scotland = Angus |lieutenancy_scotland = Angus |constituency_westminster = Angus and Perthshire Glens |constituency_scottish_parliament = Angus North and Mearns |historic_county= |post_town = FORFAR |postcode_district = DD8 |postcode_area = DD |dial_code = 01307 |london_distance = |edinburgh_distance = |static_image_name = Aberlemnokirk.jpg |static_image_caption = Aberlemno Kirk |area_total_sq_mi = Aberlemno (, IPA:[ˈopəɾˈʎɛunəx]) is a parish and small village in the Scottish council area of Angus. It is noted for three large carved Pictish stones (and one fragment) dating from the 7th and 8th centuries AD (Historic Scotland); the stones can be viewed at any time in spring-autumn, but are covered by wooden boxes in the winter to prevent frost damage. Two stones (and the fragment) stand by the B9134 Forfar-Brechin road, the Kirkyard Stone stands in the nearby graveyard of the parish church.

::figure[src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/8c/Aberlemno_Churchyard_Cross_Slab_20090616_cross.jpg" caption="The cross slab in the kirkyard.
Class II [[Pictish stone]]."] ::

The parish of Aberlemno had a population of 544 at the 2011 Census.

A genus of fossil plants first found in a nearby quarry is named Aberlemnia in honour of the location.

A notable Scottish-American poet, engineer, and editor, James Mackintosh Kennedy, was born in Aberlemno in 1848, and developed his interest in literature through books lent to him by the Aberlemno church.

The Parish was the location of a Royal Observer Corps monitoring bunker between 1961 and 1968. It remains mostly intact and as of 2015, it was being restored.

Sculptured Stones

Main article: Aberlemno Sculptured Stones

Aberlemno is notable for the presence of four early Medieval standing stones, as well as a fifth that is currently on display at McManus Galleries in Dundee.

Notes

References

• {{cite book | last = Crombie | first = J. | year = 1842 | title = The New Statistical Account of Scotland, Parish of Aberlemno, Forfarshire | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=He81AAAAMAAJ&pg=PA626 | access-date = 2009-02-12}}
• {{cite book | last = Cummins | first = W. A | title = The Picts and their Symbols | location = Stroud, Gloucestershire | publisher = Sutton Publishing | year = 1999}}
• {{citation | last = Fraser | first = James E. | year = 2006 | title = The Pictish Conquest: the Battle of Dunnichen 685 and the Birth of Scotland | publisher = Tempus | location = Stroud, Gloucestershire
• {{cite journal |last=Jervise |first=Andrew |author-link=Andrew Jervise |year=1856 |journal=Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland |volume=2 |pages=187–201 |url=http://ads.ahds.ac.uk/catalogue/adsdata/PSAS_2002/pdf/vol_002/2_187_201.pdf |title=Notices descriptive of the localities of certain sculptured stone monuments in Forfarshire, &c. (Part I.) |url-status = dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070611101851/http://ads.ahds.ac.uk/catalogue/adsdata/PSAS_2002/pdf/vol_002/2_187_201.pdf |archive-date=2007-06-11
• {{cite journal |last=Laing |first=L. |year=2000 |title=The chronology and context of Pictish relief sculpture |journal=Medieval Archaeology |volume=34 |pages=81–114 |url=http://ads.ahds.ac.uk/catalogue/adsdata/arch-769-1/ahds/dissemination/pdf/vol44/44_081_114.pdf |doi=10.1179/med.2000.44.1.81 |url-status = dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110613155953/http://ads.ahds.ac.uk/catalogue/adsdata/arch-769-1/ahds/dissemination/pdf/vol44/44_081_114.pdf |archive-date=2011-06-13
• {{cite book | last = Mitchel | first = A. | year = 1792 | title = The Statistical Account of Scotland, Parish of Aberlemno, County of Forfar | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=nPpp6ED8c3EC&pg=PA60 | access-date = 2009-02-12}}
• {{cite web |author=Nennius |author-link=Nennius |title=Historia Brittonum |url=http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/basis/nennius-full.html |access-date=2009-08-29 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090727195712/http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/basis/nennius-full.html |archive-date=27 July 2009 |url-status = dead

References

1. Census of Scotland 2011, Table KS101SC – Usual Resident Population, published by National Records of Scotland. Website http://www.scotlandscensus.gov.uk/ retrieved Apr 2018. See "Standard Outputs", Table KS101SC, Area type: Civil Parish 1930, Area: Aberlemno
2. "Aberlemno ROC Post – Subterranea Britannica".

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