Fortingall, par. and vil., with hotel, NW. Perthshire -- par., 196,683 ac., pop. 1690; vil., on river Lyon, 8 miles W. of Aberfeldy; P.O., T.O., called Fortingal; in the churchyard are remains of a great yew-tree supposed to be fully 3000 years old -- probably "the oldest specimen of vegetation in Europe;" in vicinity of vil. is a Roman camp; the par. (which includes the districts of Rannoch and Glenlyon) is wholly mountainous, with intersecting glens, lochs, and streams.

(John Bartholomew, Gazetteer of the British Isles (1887))