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ABERFOYLE, parish in south-west extremity of Perthshire, with post office under Stirling, and a hotel 6J miles north-north-west of Bucklyvie railway station. Length, lOi miles ; breadth, 5J miles ; area, 26,810 acres. Real property in 1880-81, 4579. Pop., quoad civilia, 465 ; quoad sacra, 409. A bill was promoted in 1880 for a railway, on a capital of 55,000, from the vicinity of the hotel to a junction with the Forth and Clyde Eailway between Bucklyvie and Balfron. A glen, on the south-east border, contains the hotel and the church ; extends about 2 miles west-ward, with a width of about mile, and is traversed by the chief head-stream of the river Forth. A, pass at the glen's head figured much in the raids of the Highland caterans, and was the scene of a victory by Graham of Duchray over a body of Cromwell's troops. The general surface is upland, and includes Benvenue, Benchochan, and some lesser mountains. Loch Katrine, the Trossachs, and Loch Achray are on the-northern border ; Loch Drunkie is in the north-east corner ; and Lochs Chon and Ard are in the south-west. The aggregate scenery is much diversified and richly picturesque, and many spots figure graphically in Sir Walter Scott's Rob Roy, Waverley, and Lady of the Lake; but the ' clachan ' of his romance, on a site about a mile west of the hotel, is now extinct. The public school has about 65 scholars.