Abernethy is a village and former burgh in the Perth and Kinross council area and historic county of Perthshire, in the east central Lowlands of Scotland.

The village was the setting for the Treaty of Abernethy, where Malcolm Canmore gave allegiance to William the Conqueror and its mediaeval round tower marks the site of a former abbey and, later, collegiate church.

The civil parish of Abernethy also contains the nearby settlement of Aberargie and traditionally extends to Mugdrum Island in the Firth of Tay.

It is part of the Almond and Earn ward for elections to Perth and Kinross Council Abernethy, recorded in the 10th century as Aburnethige, means 'mouth of the river Nethy'.

Near to Abernethy lies the small settlement of Catochil, whose name is first attested in a sixteenth-century copy of a text from 1295, as Cathehill, and again in 1508 as Catoichill.

This place-name too is thought to be from Pictish, or its close relative Common Brittonic, from the elements *ced ("woodland") and *ogel ("high", its form influenced by the name of the Ochil Hills among which it lies).

[3] There is evidence of early settlement in the area, with a Bronze Age log boat being discovered at Carpow in 2001, believed to date from around 1,000 BC.

[9] The parish church, which sits on land given by Nechtan,a king of the Picts, is dedicated to Saint Brigid of Kildare of (fl.

The location "Afarnach's Hall" referred to in the earliest mediaeval Arthurian literature is usually identified as Abernethy.

In the 12th century the bishop's seat was moved to Muthill, then Dunblane, so that Abernethy, no longer being a residential bishopric is today listed by the Catholic Church as a titular see.

[13] In October 1909, future Prime Minister Winston Churchill spoke at a political rally in the village, which was protested by a group of Suffragettes including Adela Pankhurst.

The tower was evidently built in two stages (shown by a change in the masonry), and probably dates from the 11th to early 12th centuries.

For elections to the Parliament of the United Kingdom, Abernethy is part of the Perth and Kinross-shire constituency in the House of Commons.

For elections to the devolved Scottish Parliament, it is part of the Perthshire South and Kinross-shire constituency and the Mid Scotland and Fife region.

[27] The village is located near the M90 motorway, sitting on the A913 road, connecting to Cupar to the east and onward through the A912 to Perth in the west.