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Beauly Priory

📍 Highland, Scotland

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About

Beauly Priory was a Valliscaulian monastic community located at "Insula de Achenbady", now Beauly, Inverness-shire. It was probably founded in 1230. It is not known for certain who the founder was, different sources giving Alexander II of Scotland, John Byset, and both. The French monks, along with Bisset, had a strong enough French-speaking presence to give the location and the river the name "beau lieu" and have it pass into English.

Founded c.1230 as a Valliscaulian priory, possibly by Alexander II and John Byset. The French monks gave Beauly its name — 'beau lieu' (beautiful place). Became Cistercian in 1510. Dissolved in 1634. John Keats visited in 1818 and wrote a poem about skulls found here.