Dalmeny (, IPA:[ˈt̪uːnˈvenɪʝ]) is a village and civil parish in Scotland. It is located on the south side of the Firth of Forth, southeast of South Queensferry and west of Edinburgh city centre. It lies within the traditional boundaries of West Lothian, and falls under the local governance of the City of Edinburgh Council. Name history "Dal" is a common prefix in south-east Scotland and north-west England and comes from the Cumbric word meaning meadow. Dal-managh, the likely root, would mean "monk's meadow". The 13th century form of the name, Dunmanyn (later Dunmanie and then Damenie, hence the modern form), indicates that the first element is Britonnic din a fort or Gaelic dun, a hill. There is no evidence of a fort and the topography is such that Dalmeny sits on a low hill. A derivation from dun managh, "monk's hill", may relate to a long-standing chapel to St Adamnan on the site. The name may rather be from din meyni, "stony fort", or din meyn an, "place of the stone fort", in reference to the ancient triple-walled fort that once stood on Craigie Hill in the east of the parish. The second element ("meny") has also been connected with Manau, an ancient name for the lands adjoining the Forth, which would give a meaning of "meadow of Manau" (cf. Slamannan, "mount of Manau" and Clackmannan, "stone of Manau"). Infrastructure The village has a primary school, which teaches about a hundred pupils, and a railway station near the south end of the Forth Bridge, which also serves the larger town of Queensferry. Parish Church A timber chapel to St Adamnon may have existed since the 8th century. This was replaced by a stone church around 1130, probably by Gospatric, Earl of Dunbar, son of Waldeve, Lord of Allerdale, and the church had three altars: to St Cuthbert, St Bridget and St Adamnon. The church is recognised as the finest Norman/Romanesque parish church still in use in Scotland, and one of the most complete in the United Kingdom, lacking only its original western tower, which was replaced in a sympathetic style in 1937 having been long absent. The most notable feature is the ornate archway framing the small main entrance door on the south side. The aisleless nave, choir and apse survive almost complete from the 12th century. The refined sculptural detail of the chancel and apse arches is notable, as