Going to Dingwall from Inverness, she must have passed by Beauly; and it was therefore, probably, on a bright morning in August 1564 that she opened the window at the prior’s house, and looking out on the gardens, eulogised the beauty of the spot and the appropriateness of its name.

In January 2010, the Scottish government approved controversial plans for a power line upgrade that will begin in Beauly and end in Denny, Falkirk.

[12][13] 3 miles (5 km) south of Beauly is Beaufort Castle, the chief seat of the Lovats, a modern mansion in the Scottish baronial style.

One of these, Castle Dounie, was attacked and burned by the forces of Oliver Cromwell in 1650 and razed again by the royal army of Prince William, Duke of Cumberland, in 1746 during the Jacobite Rising.

Simon Fraser, 11th Lord Lovat, witnessed this latter conflagration of his castle from a neighbouring hill (he then fled and took refuge in the Highlands before his capture on Loch Morar).

[6] The extensive ruins of the abbey church of Beauly Priory with funerary monuments (notably including those of the Mackenzie family) are managed by Historic Scotland.

[14] The large red sandstone church on the north boundary of the village was designed by Victorian era Gothic revival architect Joseph Aloysius Hansom and funded by Thomas, 12th Lord Fraser of Lovat.

Charles and John Farquharson and Alexander Cameron, to perform Catholic baptisms at their secret base of operations inside a cave known as (Scottish Gaelic: Glaic na h'eirbhe, lit.