Note 38 — Chapter II · The Kingdom of Scotland—843–900.

A king of Atholl was amongst the rivals who succumbed to Angus (Tigh. 739), and from the foundation of Dunkeld and St. Andrews by Constantine and the second Angus, it may be gathered that the provinces connected with those monasteries were “in the crown.” In the Irish annals Fortreim is latterly almost synonymous with the kingdom of the Picts. Its capital, Dun-Fothir, was evidently the Scottish Tara, and Dundurn in the north perhaps the Scottish Cashel. Moray and Mærne seem to have long been the leading subdivisions of the north, but it would be difficult to name the corresponding divisions of the south. Abernethy appears to have been connected with Strathearn, Dunkeld with Atholl, and St. Andrews with Fife.