Milnathort

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Milnathort, Scottish Gaelic: Muileann Choirthe, is a small town in the parish of Orwell in the county of Kinross-shire, Scotland and since 1996, the local council area of Perth and Kinross. The smaller neighbour of nearby Kinross, Milnathort has a population of around 2,000 people. It is situated amidst countryside at the foot of the Ochil Hills, and near the north shore of Loch Leven. From 1977 it became more easily accessible due to the development of the M90 motorway.

The name was thought to come from the Gaelic maol coirthe meaning "bare hill of the standing stones" but in fact comes originally from Muileann Choirthe - the mill in land of standing stones (probably the Orwell ones) - which got translated into Scots as Miln o' Quhorth and then elided down into the modern Milnathort, though some took Quhorth to be the River Forth and the town is still referred to occasionally as Mills o' Forth