Airntully is a village in the Scottish

Scotland

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 council area of Perth and Kinross

Perth and Kinross

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, which is to the west of the River Tay

River Tay

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, 8 miles (11 km) north of Perth. In the 18th Century, it thrived on cottage weaving. Although it has a relatively unspoilt charm today, the anonymous writer of the Statistical Account

Statistical Accounts of Scotland

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of the Parish of Kinclaven in the 1790s was not impressed by the backward state of the village, commenting that "The county of Perth, were it possessed of no other spot of a similar description, should allow Arntully [sic] to remain in its present state, that a proper contrast might be drawn, between a neat modern village, and one upon the old construction"