Beauly Priory

Beauly Priory turned into a Valliscaulian monastic community placed at "Insula de Achenbady, now Beauly, Inverness-shire. It became probably based in 1230. It is not known for positive who the founder turned into, unique sources giving Alexander II of Scotland, John Byset, and both. The French monks, along with Bisset a nearby, recently settled landowner, had a sturdy sufficient French-speaking presence to offer the region and the river the call "beau lieu beautiful region and have it pass into English.

It is not the fine documented abbey, and few of the priors of Beauly are acknowledged through call till the 14th century. It became Cistercian on April 16, 1510, after the suppression of the Valliscaulian Order through the Pope. The priory changed into gradually secularized, and ruled via a chain of commendatory abbots. The priory's lands were given over to the bishop of Ross via royal constitution on October 20, 1634. The ruins nowadays are still tremendous and are one of the principal traveller sights in Inverness-shire. It is protected as a scheduled monument and a Category A indexed constructing.