Country: | Scotland |
Official Name: | Roybridge |
Gaelic Name: | Drochaid Ruaidh |
Os Grid Reference: | NN269807 |
Map Type: | Lochaber |
Coordinates: | 56.891°N -4.841°W |
Unitary Scotland: | Highland |
Constituency Westminster: | Ross, Skye and Lochaber |
Constituency Scottish Parliament: | Inverness East, Nairn and Lochaber |
Post Town: | Roy Bridge |
Postcode District: | PH31 |
Postcode Area: | PH |
Dial Code: | 01397 |
Static Image Name: | NN2781_The_A86_and_The_Roybridge_Hotel.jpg |
Roybridge (gd|Drochaid Ruaidh, 'the bridge over the Roy')[1] is a small village, that lies at the confluence of the rivers River Roy and River Spean, located 3miles east of Spean Bridge, in Kilmonivaig Parish, Inverness-shire, Scottish Highlands and is in the Highland administrative area.
Roybridge is on the A86 between Spean Bridge and Newtonmore, and has a station on the (former West Highland Railway) line, served by trains passing between Crianlarich and Fort William.
Both of the parents of Australia's only recognised saint Mary MacKillop, lived in Roybridge, prior to emigrating to Australia.[2] MacKillop visited Roybridge in the 1870s, and St Margaret's, the local parish church of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Argyll and the Isles, now has a shrine to her.