What is "gleneagles"

Gleneagles ( Scottish Gaelic: Gleann na h-Eaglais/Gleann Eagas) is a glen which connects with Glen Devon to form a pass through the Ochil Hills of Perth and Kinross in Scotland. The name's origin has nothing to do with eagles, and is a corruption of eaglais or ecclesia, meaning church, and refers to the chapel and well of Saint Mungo, which was restored as a memorial to the Haldane family which owns the Gleneagles estate.

Gleneagles House at the northern entrance to Gleneagles comprises a 1750 extension to an earlier 17th-century building that is approached by an avenue of lime trees planted to commemorate the Battle of Camperdown. Little remains of Gleneagles Castle, the early 16th-century tower house of the Haldanes.

The Caledonian Railway Company used its name for the Gleneagles Hotel and golf course they built some distance from the glen at the edge of Auchterarder. The hotel hosted the controversial G8 conference in July 2005, which earned the area the description of "the most fortified golf course in Scotland" due to extensive security.

Gleneagles railway station, formerly known as Crieff Junction, is on the line between Perth and Stirling. As its name suggests, this was the junction for the Crieff Junction Railway, which closed in 1964.

Gleneagles may refer to the following:

• Gleneagles, Scotland
  • The 31st G8 summit held in July 2005 at Gleneagles, Scotland
• Gleneagles Agreement
• Gleneagles Hotel, Auchterarder, Scotland
• Gleneagles Hotel, Torquay, the inspiration for Fawlty Towers
• Gleneagles Elementary School in West Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
• The Gleneagles, a historic apartment building in Montreal, Quebec, Canada
• Gleneagles (horse), a thoroughbred racehorse

Gleneagles (foaled 12 January 2012) is an Irish Thoroughbred racehorse. After finishing fourth on his debut, he finished first in his remaining five races as a two-year-old in 2014 and was named Cartier Champion Two-year-old Colt. He won the Tyros Stakes, Futurity Stakes and National Stakes in Ireland before being disqualified after crossing the line in first place in the Prix Jean-Luc Lagardere in France. On his three-year-old debut he won the 2000 Guineas and followed up in the Irish 2000 Guineas three weeks later. In June he added a win in the St James's Palace Stakes at Royal Ascot.