Dunkeld and also Birnam is a neighborhood council location and also UK Census locality in Perth and also Kinross, Scotland, containing two towns on opposite banks of the River Tay: the historical cathedral "city" of Dunkeld on the north financial institution, and Birnam on the south bank. Both were first connected by a bridge constructed in 1809 by Thomas Telford. The two places lie close to the Highland Boundary Fault, which marks the geological border in between the Highlands and the Lowlands, and are regularly called the "Portal to the Highlands" because of their setting on the main road as well as rail lines north. Dunkeld as well as Birnam share a railway station, Dunkeld & Birnam, on the Highland Main Line, as well as are about 24 kilometres (15 mi) north of Perth on what is now the A9 road. Dunkeld pushes the eastern side of the A9 on the north financial institution of the River Tay. The town is the location of Dunkeld Cathedral. Around 20 of the houses within Dunkeld have been restored by the National Trust for Scotland, who run a store within the town. The Hermitage, on the western side of the A9, is a countryside building that is additionally a National Trust for Scotland site. Birnam exists opposite Dunkeld, on the south bank of the Tay, to which it is connected by the Telford bridge. It is the place of the Birnam Oak, believed to the only remaining tree from the Birnam Wood named in Shakespeare's Macbeth. The Highland games held at Birnam are the area of the World Haggis Eating Championships.