Coupar-Angus, a town of Perthshire (till 1891 partly in Forfarshire), near the left bank of the Isla, a tributary of the Tay, 13 miles NNE. of Perth, and 15 NW. of Dundee. Here are remains of a Roman camp, within which is the fragment of a Cistercian abbey, founded by Malcolm IV. in 1164, and forming the subject of a monograph by Rogers and Allan (2 vols. 1879-80). Linen is manufactured. Pop. (1841) 1568; (1881) 2154; (1891) 2106. See also CUPAR.
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Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 3: Catarrh to Dion, p. 523
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