Skirling is a parish, community council area and village in Peeblesshire in the Scottish Borders situated 2+1⁄2 miles east of Biggar in Lanarkshire.

The earliest known record of Skirling by name dates from the reign of King Robert Bruce, who granted the barony of Scrawline to John Monfode.

[1] Thomas Gibson-Carmichael was raised to peerage of the United Kingdom in 1912 as Baron Carmichael of Skirling, but this title became extinct on his death in 1926.

[9] Ironwork on the graveyard gates is by Thomas Hadden and the Carmichael family plot is flanked by two charming angel sculptures.

It originally consisted of five small farms on the valley floor of Skirling Burn, forming a roughly linear shaped settlement.

Just south-west of the village is the site of Skirling Castle, described as "ane notable beilding"[12] and demolished and burnt by Regent Moray on 12 June 1568.