| Loch of Clunie | |
| Coordinates: | 56.581°N -3.4436°W |
| Type: | freshwater loch |
| Inflow: | Lunan Burn from Loch of Butterstone |
| Outflow: | Lunan Burn into Loch of Drumellie |
| Length: | 410m (1,350feet) |
| Width: | 205m (673feet) |
| Area: | 50.6ha |
| Depth: | 29abbr=onNaNabbr=on |
| Max-Depth: | 69abbr=onNaNabbr=on |
| Volume: | 170265000abbr=onNaNabbr=on |
| Shore: | 3.2km (02miles) |
| Elevation: | 47m (154feet) |
| Temperature High: | 62.3F |
| Temperature Low: | 47.2F |
| Islands: | 1 |
| Pushpin Map: | Scotland Perth and Kinross |
Loch of Clunie is a small lowland freshwater loch that is located 2miles west of Blairgowrie, Perth and Kinross, Scotland.[1] [2] [3]
The Loch of Clunie has a single island, said to be artificial, which has the remains of Clunie Castle.[4] [5] The house was designed as a simple L-plan tower house and was built by George Brown Bishop of Dunkeld between 1485 and 1514 as a spiritual retreat.[4] A chapel was dedicated to St Catherine in the house in 1507.[4] The island is surrounded by a dry-stone wall and there is a well designed pier at the south-end of the island, that was constructed in 1512 - 1513.[4] The house was burnt down in a fire and was restored at the end of the 18th Century.[4] It is now currently a ruin as the roof fell in in 1989 and was never rebuilt.