Beauly Priory in Beauly, Highland - Find a Grave Cemetery

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Coordinates: 57.48448, -4.45833
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Beauly Priory is a village in the Kilmorack Parish of Inverness, on the River Beauly. It 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 Bisset, and both). The French monks, along with Bisset (a nearby, recently settled landowner), had a strong enough French-speaking presence to give the location and the river the name "beau lieu" ("beautiful place") and have it pass into English. It became Cistercian on 16 April 1510, after the suppression of the Valliscaulian Order by the Pope. The priory was gradually secularized, and ruled by a series of commendatory abbots. The priory's lands were given over to the bishop of Ross by royal charter on 20 October 1634.