Stirlingshire

Stirlingshire is a county in the heart of Scotland. It occupies the pinch between the rivers Clyde and Forth, and straddles the boundary between the Central Lowlands and the Scottish Highlands. Prior to around the 9th century, modern-day Stirlingshire formed a political and ethnolinguistic boundary between the Gaels of Dal Riata to the west, the Picts to the north and east and the Britons and Angles to the south.

The county has a population of around 250,000.