RUSKIE, a hamlet, in the parish of Port-of-Monteith, county of Perth, 3 miles (N.E.) from the village of Port of Monteith; containing 57 inhabitants. It lies in the north-eastern quarter of the parish, in the vicinity of a lake of the same name, one of a chain of lakes. On the lands of Ruskie, which anciently formed a barony possessed by the Stewart family, is a house named Keirhead, situated on an eminence, and supposed to have been a military post overlooking the plain on the south.