Banavie

Coordinates: 56°50′46″N 5°05′53″W / 56.846°N 5.098°W / 56.846; -5.098

Banavie (Scottish Gaelic: Banbhaidh or Bainbhidh) is a small settlement near Fort William in the Highland Council Area of Scotland. One of the closest villages to Ben Nevis, it is about 2.5 miles (4 km) north east of Fort William town centre, next to Caol and Corpach.

It has been suggested that Banavie is one of the possible birth places of Saint Patrick. One theory is that Patrick was the son of a Roman tax collector and born at Banavie around AD 389. His family had come with the Romans who had invaded the West Highlands and Islands. The 19th century work 'History of Celtic Placenames' by William J. Watson notes: "St Patrick was born at Banna-venta, an early town south of the Grampians." A similar placename, Bannavem Taburniae, is mentioned in one of the only two known authenticated letters by St Patrick.

It was formerly where the Camanachd Association, the ruling body of shinty was based, but this has now been moved to Inverness.