Three miles north of Pitlochry by the A9 road, the Pass of Killiecrankie (Gaelic: Coille Chneagaidh), is a gorge lying between Ben Vrackie (841m (2,759feet)) and Tenandry Hill in Perth and Kinross on the River Garry.[1]
The river-gorge traverses the pass over the course of a mile, and above it, the road and the railway, with the village of Killiecrankie at the north end. Much of the area is owned by the National Trust for Scotland.[2]
About a mile toward the village of Killiecrankie, the Battle of Killiecrankie took place in 1689.[3]
There was also a ship, a 3-masted bark named the Pass of Killiecrankie of the Killiecrankie line. The ship was built in 1893 and later renamed Stifinder.[4]
Killiecrankie is part of the Loch Tummel National Scenic Area (NSA),[5] one of 40 such areas in Scotland, which are defined so as to identify areas of exceptional scenery and to ensure its protection by restricting certain forms of development.[6]