Kiltarlity is a small village in the Highland

Highland (council area)

Highland is a council area in the Scottish Highlands and is the largest local government area in both Scotland and the United Kingdom as a whole. It shares borders with the council areas of Moray, Aberdeenshire, Perth and Kinross, and Argyll and Bute. Their councils, and those of Angus and...

 council area of Scotland

Scotland

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. It is 12 miles (19.3 km) west of Inverness

Inverness

Inverness is a city in the Scottish Highlands. It is the administrative centre for the Highland council area, and is regarded as the capital of the Highlands of Scotland...

, and 2.5 miles (4 km) south of Beauly

Beauly

Beauly is a town of the Scottish county of Inverness-shire, on the River Beauly, 10 miles west of Inverness by the Far North railway line. Its population was 855 in 1901...

, on the Bruiach Burn. It has a population of under 1000 people, and a primary school, Tomnacross Primary. Lovat Shinty Club

Lovat Shinty Club

Lovat Shinty Club is a shinty club from Kiltarlity, Inverness-shire, Scotland. The club was formed in 1888 and has a healthy rivalry with near neighbours Beauly...

 play at Kiltarlity, on a pitch on the main street, Balgate Drive.

The name Kiltarlity comes from the Gaelic Cill Targhlain, which means 'church of Talorcan/Talorgan', the name of a number of Pictish kings.

The name 'Kiltarlity' historically refers to the entire parish, which includes a number of surrounding hamlets. The main settlement was known as Aultfearna (Gaelic) or Allarburn (Scots

Scots language

Scots is the Germanic language variety spoken in Lowland Scotland and parts of Ulster . It is sometimes called Lowland Scots to distinguish it from Scottish Gaelic, the Celtic language variety spoken in most of the western Highlands and in the Hebrides.Since there are no universally accepted...

), which refer to the alder

Alder

Alder is the common name of a genus of flowering plants belonging to the birch family . The genus comprises about 30 species of monoecious trees and shrubs, few reaching large size, distributed throughout the North Temperate Zone and in the Americas along the Andes southwards to...

 trees which grow beside the burn. This settlement is now usually known and signposted as Kiltarlity or Kiltarlity Village.

Nearby hamlets considered to be part of Kiltarlity include Camault Muir

Camault Muir

Camault Muir is a scattered crofting community, that is part of the village of Kiltarlity, in Inverness-shire, Scottish Highlands and is in the Highland council area of Scotland. It is situated on a hilly area, about 1 km south of the main part of Kiltarlity, and 16 km west of the city of...

, Tomnacross

Tomnacross

Tomnacross is a small hamlet that is part of the village of Kiltarlity, about 20 km west of the city of Inverness, in Inverness-shire and is in the Highland Council area of Scotland. It is the location of the Kiltarlity village school, church and cemetery....

, Ardendrain

Ardendrain

Ardendrain is a scattered hamlet in the Highland council area of Scotland. It is above Glen Convinth, 4 km south of the village of Kiltarlity, and 18 km west of Inverness.The name comes from "àirde an droigheann", Gaelic for "height of the blackthorn"....

, and Culburnie

Culburnie, Highland

Culburnie is a scattered hamlet in Kiltarlity, located about 2 km west of the main part of Kiltarlity village, and about 20 km west of Inverness, in the Highland council area of Scotland.The name may come from the Gaelic for "at the back of the damp place"....

.