AUCHTERARDER, police burgh, Perthshire, Scotland, 134m. S.W. of Perth by the L.M.S. Railway, on Ruthven water, a right-hand tributary of the Earn. Pop. (1931) 2,254. The chief manufactures are those of tartans and other woollens. It obtained a charter from the earl of Strathearn (early 13th century), afterwards became a royal burgh for a period, and was represented in the Scottish parliament. Its castle, now ruinous, was built as a hunting-lodge for Malcolm Canmore, but of the abbey it possessed as early as the reign of Alexander II. (1198 1249) no remains exist. The Norman church of St. Mungo is in ruins. The town was almost entirely burned down by the earl of Mar in 1716 during the abortive Jacobite rising. It was here that the dispute arose which led to the disruption in the Church of Scot land in 1843. The estate of Kincardine, Im. S., gives the title of earl of Kincardine to the duke of Montrose. The castle was dis mantled in 1645 by the marquis of Argyll in retaliation for the destruction of Castle Campbell in Dollar Glen south of the Ochils. The ruined castle of Tullibardine, 2m. W. of the burgh, once belonged to the Murrays of Tullibardine, ancestors of the duke of Atholl, who derives the title of marquis of Tullibardine from the estate.