Kirkton of Menmuir consists of only three houses (the Old Schoolhouse, the Manse, the Old Inn) and for this reason is referred to locally as "twa hooses and another yin," but around 250 people live in the area and the community hall is well used.

Neolithic cup and ring marked stones have been found in the area.

[4] These point to Menmuir having been a centre of some ecclesiastical importance in the early Medieval period.

A royal palace is supposed to have existed in Menmuir in the reign of Alexander III, a little to the south-west of where the church now stands.

[5] Menmuir straddles the boundary of the fertile coastal land and the start of the Grampian Mountains.