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[[File:Jacobite broadside - Channery Town in Ross.jpg|thumb|right|250px|Fortrose ("Channery") in an 18th-century Jacobian broadside]]
'''Fortrose'''
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▲'''Fortrose''' ({{IPAc-en|f|ɔːr|t|ˈ|r|oʊ|z}}; {{lang-gd|A' Chananaich}}, {{lang-sco|Chainry}}) is a town and former [[royal burgh]] in [[Highland (council area)|Highland]], [[Scotland]], [[United Kingdom]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Fortrose |url=http://www.scottish-places.info/towns/townfirst2110.html |website=The Gazetteer for Scotland |publisher=School of GeoSciences, University of Edinburgh and The Royal Scottish Geographical Society |access-date=17 June 2018}}</ref><ref>[http://www.scots-online.org/dictionary/read.asp?letter=C&CurPage=22 The Online Scots Dictionary]</ref> It is on the [[Moray Firth]], about {{convert|6|mi|km|0}} north-east of [[Inverness]]. The burgh is a popular location for trying to spot [[bottlenose dolphin]]s (see [[Chanonry Point]]) in the [[Moray Firth]]. The town is known for its ruined 13th century [[Fortrose Cathedral|cathedral]], and as the home of the [[Brahan Seer]].
The origin of the name ''Fortrose'' is uncertain. One possibility is that it came from nearby [[Chanonry Point]] and originally meant the [[headland]] ({{lang|gd|ros}}) of the [[Fortriu]],<ref>{{cite book |last=McGuigan |first=Neil |date=2021 |title=Máel Coluim III, 'Canmore': An Eleventh-Century King |location=Edinburgh |publisher=John Donald |isbn=9781910900192 |page=59}}</ref> a local ethonym.<ref name="UGlas">{{cite web |last1=Rhys |first1=Guto |date=2015|title=Approaching the Pictish language: historiography, early evidence and the question of Pritenic |url=http://theses.gla.ac.uk/6285/7/2015RhysPhD.pdf |page=155|website=University of Glasgow |publisher=University of Glasgow}}</ref> Compare the etymology of [[Montrose, Angus|Montrose]] in [[Angus (Scotland)|Angus]]. The locals pronounce the name {{IPAc-en|ˈ|f|ɔːr|t|r|oʊ|z}}, with the stress on the first syllable.
The former name of the place was '''Channery''', an anglicization of the [[Scottish Gaelic]] {{lang|gd|A' Chananaich}} and [[Scots language|Scots]] {{lang|sco|Chainry}}, likewise from Chanonry Point.
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Archaeological investigations, by [[Headland Archaeology]], in 2013, as part of a planning condition for the creation of a housing development found domestic activity dating from the [[Neolithic British Isles|Neolithic]] to the [[Early Bronze Age]]. There was evidence of cereal production and the gathering of wild resources. The archaeologists also found that funerary practices change on the peninsula during that time from stone [[Cist|cist burials]] to [[Cremation|cremation burials]].<ref>{{Cite web|title=Vol 91 (2020): The Excavation of Neolithic Pits and a Bronze Age Burial Site at Ness Gap, Fortrose {{!}} Scottish Archaeological Internet Reports|url=http://journals.socantscot.org/index.php/sair/issue/view/303|access-date=2021-07-23|website=journals.socantscot.org}}</ref>
▲== History ==
In the [[Middle Ages]] it was the seat of the bishopric of [[Ross, Scotland|Ross]], and formerly called ''Chanonry'', for being the Chanory of Ross.<ref name="McCulloch1847">{{cite book|author=John Ramsay McCulloch|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vfERAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA921|title=A Dictionary, Geographical, Statistical, and Historical, of the Various Countries, Places, and Principal Natural Objects in the World: Illustrated with Maps|publisher=Harper & Brothers|year=1847|page=921|access-date=17 June 2018}}</ref> Fortrose owes its origins to the decision by Bishop Robert in the 13th century to build a new Cathedral of Ross there. This was to replace the Church of St Peter in nearby [[Rosemarkie]].<ref>{{Cite web|title=Fortrose Feature Page on Undiscovered Scotland|url=https://www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/fortrose/fortrose/index.html|access-date=2021-07-23|website=www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk}}</ref> The cathedral was largely demolished in the mid-seventeenth century by [[Oliver Cromwell]] to provide building materials for a citadel at [[Inverness]].<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=HJQeAQAAMAAJ|title=The Scots Magazine|publisher=D.C. Thomson|year=1956|page=155|access-date=17 June 2018}}</ref> The vaulted south aisle, with bell-tower, and a detached chapter house (used as the tollbooth of Fortrose after the [[Protestant Reformation|Reformation]]) remain. These fragments, though modest in scale, display considerable architectural refinement, and are in the care of [[Historic Scotland]] (no entrance charge).
Fortrose was a [[Borough constituency|parliamentary burgh]], combined with [[Inverness]], [[Forres]] and [[Nairn]], in the [[Inverness Burghs (UK Parliament constituency)|Inverness Burghs]] [[constituency]] of the [[British House of Commons|House of Commons]] of the [[Parliament of Great Britain]] from 1708 to 1801 and of the [[Parliament of the United Kingdom]] from 1801 to 1918. The constituency was abolished in 1918 and the Fortrose component was merged into the then new constituency of [[Ross and Cromarty (UK Parliament constituency)|Ross and Cromarty]].{{Citation needed|date=July 2021|reason=Sections of this page have no citations and need them.}}
==Fortrose Academy==
Fortrose Academy is the only secondary school on the Black Isle. It feeds in pupils from the respective primary schools of [[Avoch]], [[Cromarty]], [[Culbokie]], [[Munlochy]], [[North Kessock]], [[Resolis]], and [[Tore, Scotland|Tore]]. There are around 640 pupils enrolled.
==Fortrose Library==
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