Fortrose is a town and former royal burgh on the Black Isle in the Highland council area of Scotland,[2][3] about six miles (ten kilometres) northeast of Inverness.

Chanonry Point, a nearby headland projecting into the Moray Firth, is a popular location for dolphin spotting.

One possibility is that it came from nearby Chanonry Point and originally meant the headland (ros) of the Fortriu,[6] a local ethonym.

[10] The cathedral was largely demolished in the mid-seventeenth century by Oliver Cromwell to provide building materials for a citadel at Inverness.

[11] The vaulted south aisle, with bell-tower, and a detached chapter house (used as the tollbooth of Fortrose after the Reformation) remain.

These fragments, though modest in scale, display considerable architectural refinement, and are in the care of Historic Scotland (no entrance charge).

It feeds in pupils from the respective primary schools of Avoch, Cromarty, Culbokie, Munlochy, North Kessock, Resolis, and Tore.