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Atholl or Athole (; Old Gaelic Athfhotla) is a large historical division in the Scottish Highlands
Scottish Highlands

The Scottish Highlands include the rugged and mountainous regions of Scotland north and west of the Highland Boundary Fault, although the exact boundaries are not clearly defined, particularly to the east....
. Today it forms the northern part of Perth and Kinross
Perth and Kinross

Perth and Kinross is one of Council Areas of Scotland in Scotland, and a Lieutenancy areas of Scotland. It borders onto the Aberdeenshire , Angus, Dundee City, Fife, Clackmannanshire, Stirling , Argyll and Bute and Highland council areas....
, Scotland
Scotland

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 bordering Marr
Marr

Marr is one of six committee areas in Aberdeenshire, Scotland, bordering Atholl, Badenoch, Gowrie, The Mearns, Banffshire and Buchan. It has a population of 34,038 ....
, Badenoch
Badenoch

Badenoch is a traditional district which today forms part of Badenoch and Strathspey, an area of Highland Council, in Scotland, bounded on the north by the Monadhliath Mountains, on the east by the Cairngorm Mountains and Braemar, on the south by Atholl and the Grampian Mountains , and on the west by Lochaber....
, Breadalbane
Breadalbane, Scotland

Breadalbane is a region of the southern/central Scottish Highlands in Atholl. The Breadalbane hydro-electric power scheme lies within the region....
, Strathearn
Strathearn

Strathearn or Strath Earn, is the strath of the River Earn. It extends from Loch Earn in Perth and Kinross to the Firth of Tay, in Scotland....
, Perth
Perth, Scotland

Perth is a town and former royal burgh in central Scotland. Sitting on the banks of the River Tay, it is the administrative headquarters of Perth and Kinross council area....
 and Lochaber
Lochaber

Lochaber is one of the 16 ward management areas of the Highland Council of Scotland and one of eight former Local government of Scotland districts of the two-tier Highland Regions of Scotland....
.

Atholl was historically an Mormaer
Mormaer

The title of Mormaer designates a regional or provincial ruler in the medieval Kingdom of the Scots. In theory, although not always in practice, a Mormaer was second only to the Kings of Scots, and the senior of a toisech....
dom, later an earldom. The first recorded Earl of Atholl
Duke of Atholl

The title Duke of Atholl, named after Atholl in Scotland, was created only one time in British history by Queen Anne in 1703, for John Murray, 2nd Marquess of Atholl with a special remainder failing his heirs male to those of his father the 1st Marquess....
 was Matad, Earl of Atholl
Matad, Earl of Atholl

Matad of Atholl was Mormaer of Atholl, 1130s-1153/9.It is possible that he was granted the Mormaerdom by a Kings of Scots of Scotland, as suggested by Roberts, rather than merely inheriting it....
 sometime in the 12th century.






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Atholl (district)
Atholl or Athole (; Old Gaelic Athfhotla) is a large historical division in the Scottish Highlands
Scottish Highlands

The Scottish Highlands include the rugged and mountainous regions of Scotland north and west of the Highland Boundary Fault, although the exact boundaries are not clearly defined, particularly to the east....
. Today it forms the northern part of Perth and Kinross
Perth and Kinross

Perth and Kinross is one of Council Areas of Scotland in Scotland, and a Lieutenancy areas of Scotland. It borders onto the Aberdeenshire , Angus, Dundee City, Fife, Clackmannanshire, Stirling , Argyll and Bute and Highland council areas....
, Scotland
Scotland

conventional_long_name = ScotlandAlba|common_name= Scotland|image_flag = Flag of Scotland.svg|flag_width = 130px...
 bordering Marr
Marr

Marr is one of six committee areas in Aberdeenshire, Scotland, bordering Atholl, Badenoch, Gowrie, The Mearns, Banffshire and Buchan. It has a population of 34,038 ....
, Badenoch
Badenoch

Badenoch is a traditional district which today forms part of Badenoch and Strathspey, an area of Highland Council, in Scotland, bounded on the north by the Monadhliath Mountains, on the east by the Cairngorm Mountains and Braemar, on the south by Atholl and the Grampian Mountains , and on the west by Lochaber....
, Breadalbane
Breadalbane, Scotland

Breadalbane is a region of the southern/central Scottish Highlands in Atholl. The Breadalbane hydro-electric power scheme lies within the region....
, Strathearn
Strathearn

Strathearn or Strath Earn, is the strath of the River Earn. It extends from Loch Earn in Perth and Kinross to the Firth of Tay, in Scotland....
, Perth
Perth, Scotland

Perth is a town and former royal burgh in central Scotland. Sitting on the banks of the River Tay, it is the administrative headquarters of Perth and Kinross council area....
 and Lochaber
Lochaber

Lochaber is one of the 16 ward management areas of the Highland Council of Scotland and one of eight former Local government of Scotland districts of the two-tier Highland Regions of Scotland....
.

Atholl was historically an Mormaer
Mormaer

The title of Mormaer designates a regional or provincial ruler in the medieval Kingdom of the Scots. In theory, although not always in practice, a Mormaer was second only to the Kings of Scots, and the senior of a toisech....
dom, later an earldom. The first recorded Earl of Atholl
Duke of Atholl

The title Duke of Atholl, named after Atholl in Scotland, was created only one time in British history by Queen Anne in 1703, for John Murray, 2nd Marquess of Atholl with a special remainder failing his heirs male to those of his father the 1st Marquess....
 was Matad, Earl of Atholl
Matad, Earl of Atholl

Matad of Atholl was Mormaer of Atholl, 1130s-1153/9.It is possible that he was granted the Mormaerdom by a Kings of Scots of Scotland, as suggested by Roberts, rather than merely inheriting it....
 sometime in the 12th century. In 1703 the title was made a Dukedom by Queen Anne
Anne of Great Britain

Anne became Queen of England, Queen of Scots and Kingdom of Ireland on 8 March 1702, succeeding her brother-in-law, William III of England. Her Roman Catholic father, James II of England, was Glorious Revolution in 1688/9; her brother-in-law and her sister then became joint monarchs as William III & II and Mary II of England, the only such c...
. The title also holds numerous subsidiary titles. These include: Marquess of Atholl (created 1676), Marquess of Tullibardine (1703), Earl of Atholl (1629), Earl of Tullibardine (1606 and 1676), Earl of Strathtay and Strathardle (1703), Viscount of Balquhidder (1676), Lord Murray of Tullibardine (1604), Lord Murray, Balvenie and Gask (1676) and Baron Percy (1722). The Barony of Percy forms part of the peerage of Great Britain; all other titles belong in the peerage of Scotland.

The right of the Earls of Atholl to hold courts for the area were ended in 1746 by the Heritable Jurisdictions Act
Heritable Jurisdictions Act

The Heritable Jurisdictions Act, 1746 was an Act of Parliament passed by the Parliament of Great Britain in 1746. It abolished the traditional rights of jurisdiction afforded to a Scottish clan chief....
, and the district subsequently became part of the sheriffdom
Sheriffdom

A sheriffdom is a judicial district in Scotland.Since 1 January 1975 there have been six sheriffdoms. Previously sheriffdoms were composed of groupings of counties of Scotland....
 and later county
Counties of Scotland

The counties of Scotland were the principal subdivisions of Scotland of Scotland until 1975. Scotland's current Lieutenancy areas of Scotland and registration counties are largely based on them....
 of Perthshire
Perthshire

Perthshire , officially the County of Perth, is a registration county in central Scotland. It extends from Strathmore, Angus and Perth & Kinross in the east, to the Pass of Drumochter in the north, Rannoch Moor and Ben Lui in the west, and Aberfoyle, Scotland in the south....
.

In Scottish Gaelic the name is Athall, which derives from the Old Irish Ath-fhotla, or 'New Ireland
New Ireland

New Ireland Province, formerly New Mecklenburg is the most northeastern Provinces of Papua New Guinea of Papua New Guinea....
', (Fotla being a traditional name for Ireland).

Towns and villages in Atholl include Aberfeldy, Ballinluig, Blair Atholl
Blair Atholl

Blair Atholl is a small town in Perthshire, Scotland, built about the confluence of the Rivers Tilt and Garry in one of the few areas of flat land in the midst of the Grampian Mountains....
, Dunkeld
Dunkeld

Dunkeld is a small town in River Tay, Perth and Kinross, Scotland, approximately 15 miles north of Perth, Scotland on the eastern side of the A9 road into the Scottish Highlands and on the opposite side of the River Tay from the Victorian village of Birnam, Perth and Kinross....
, Logierait, Pitlochry
Pitlochry

Pitlochry , is a burgh in the council area of Perth and Kinross, Scotland, lying on the River Tummel. It has an estimated population of 3,300....
 and Weem.

See also

  • Blair Atholl
    Blair Atholl

    Blair Atholl is a small town in Perthshire, Scotland, built about the confluence of the Rivers Tilt and Garry in one of the few areas of flat land in the midst of the Grampian Mountains....
  • Duke of Atholl
    Duke of Atholl

    The title Duke of Atholl, named after Atholl in Scotland, was created only one time in British history by Queen Anne in 1703, for John Murray, 2nd Marquess of Atholl with a special remainder failing his heirs male to those of his father the 1st Marquess....
  • MacGillonie
    MacGillonie

    MacGillonie or MacGill'Eoinidh, according to MacIntosh was a famous hunter in the Grampian Mountains, Scotland and several vestiges of his huts were be seen in the mountains of Atholl in 1785....
  • Atolovo
    Atolovo

    Atolovo is a village in southeastern Bulgaria, part of Straldzha municipality, Yambol Province. , it has a population of 184 and the mayor is Nikolay Spasov....
    , a Bulgaria
    Bulgaria

    The state of Bulgaria , Scientific transliteration Balgarija, officially the Republic of Bulgaria has played a significant role in the Balkans in south-eastern Europe for over fourteen centuries....
    n village named after a Duke of Atholl