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ABERNETHY [Continued]
Campden Manuscipt Col. [Colonel] Stratherne " Or ever the Earne hath joined his waters in one stream
So that Tay is become mare Spatious he looketh up a little space to Abernethy Seated at the feet
of the Ocellian mountains anciently the royall Seat of the Picts and a weel peopled City
which as we reade in ane ancient fragment Nechtan King of the Picts gave unto God and St.
Bridget untill the day of doome togidder with the bounds thereof which lay from a Stone
in Abertrent to a Stone nigh Carpul, (supposed Carpow), and from thence as far as Ethan
supposed Hatton the name of a farm Steading.
The oldest Scottish historians represent Aberneth as the Capital of the Pictish nation both in Civil
and religious matters.
Most probably, a Church was built at Aberneth at a very remote period - in the fifth century
by Nathan Marbel a King of the Picts,according to the Pictish Chronicle; towards the close of the Sixth
Century by King Garnard McDourmach, according to Fordun, Winton, and Major; or in the beginning
of the seventh Century by King Nethan II, Garnard's immediate Succesor, according to the Register of
St. Andrews.
Pinkerton supposes that Nethan III. who architects from Ceolfuid Abbot of Wereman
in the eight Century, and who according to Winton, founded Rosemarkie may have been a
founder of Abernethy also; or at least substitute more Substantial buildings in place
of the original wooden erections.
According to the Pictish Chronicle, the founding and endowing of the Church of Abernethy was
Sacrifice which the Pictish King offered to God and St. Bridget, in acknowledgement of the recovery
of his Kingdom; and over the Sacrifice i.e. on the occasion of dedicating the Church and lands to the
of religious, hallejahs were sung by Darlintach, an Irish Abbess who had previously in her own Country.