Tour Scotland Travel Video Coupar Angus Abbey Perthshire

Tour Scotland travel video of Coupar Angus Abbey on ancestry visit to Perthshire, Scotland. Coupar Angus Abbey was a Cistercian monastery on the boundary between Angus and Gowrie, Perthshire. It was founded on the old royal manor of Coupar with the patronage of Máel Coluim IV, Malcolm IV, King of Scots, by Cistercian monks from Melrose Abbey. It became an abbey of medium to large size and wealth and enjoyed more than four centuries of monastic life before it was turned into a secular lordship for James Elphinstone, by parliament in 1606 and by royal charter in 1607. Today, there are almost no remains of the abbey, much of it being burned by the Protestant reformers.

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