a village of Perthshire, Scotland; situated on the left bank of the Teith, 6 miles N.W. of Stirling. Pop. (1851) 1459, mostly employed in the extensive cotton works of Deanston, in the immediate vicinity. The ruins of Doune Castle, a large and massive fortress, built about the fourteenth century, are situated on the point of a steep and narrow elevation, washed on one side by the Teith, and on the other by the Ardoch. It was anciently the seat of the earls of Menteith; but about the beginning of the fifteenth century it was forfeited to the crown, and became the favourite residence of the dukes of Albany, who governed Scotland during the captivity of James I. Queens Margaret and Mary are also said to have frequently resided in this fortress. It was held for Prince Charles in 1745; and here he confined his prisoners taken at Falkirk, and among the rest the author of the tragedy of *Douglas*.