PITLOCHRY, a village, in the parish of Moulin,
county of Perth, 12 miles (N. N. W.) from Dunkeld;
containing 291 inhabitants. This village, which is situated
on the road from Perth to Inverness, about a mile
southward of the village of Moulin, has within the last
few years acquired some degree of importance. Its advantageous
situation on a public thoroughfare, affording
facilities of intercourse with the principal towns in the
south, has induced the settlement of enterprising persons,
from whose stores various articles of merchandise
are dispersed through the surrounding district. A laboratory
was established in 1834; and there are not less
than seven distilleries in the village and immediate vicinity,
in which collectively 90,000 gallons of whisky are
annually distilled: these distilleries give employment to
about eighty persons, and pay to the excise, duties, including
those on malt manufactured here, amounting to
£20,000 per annum. Branches of the Central and
Commercial ]$anks of Scotland, and also a branch of
tlie Edinburgh Savings' Bank, were established in 1836.
There is a post-oflice; and fairs for horses and cattle
are held in the village on the Saturday before the first
Tuesday in May, and on the third Wednesday in October,
O.S. Facility of communication is afforded, not
only by the great north road, but l)y numerous statuteroads
that intersect the parish in various directions on
both sides of the river Tummel, over which, and over
the Garry, substantial bridges have been erected.