Dunkeld and also Birnam is a neighborhood council area as well as UK Census area in Perth and Kinross, Scotland, including 2 villages on contrary banks of the River Tay: the historical cathedral "city" of Dunkeld on the north bank, and Birnam on the south bank. The two were first connected by a bridge built in 1809 by Thomas Telford. Both locations lie close to the Highland Boundary Fault, which marks the geological boundary in between the Highlands as well as the Lowlands, and are often referred to as the "Entrance to the Highlands" due to their placement on the main road and rail lines north. Dunkeld and Birnam share a railway station, Dunkeld & Birnam, on the Highland Main Line, as well as have to do with 24 kilometres (15 mi) north of Perth on what is now the A9 road. Dunkeld lies on the eastern side of the A9 on the north bank of the River Tay. The community is the area of Dunkeld Cathedral. Around 20 of the houses within Dunkeld have actually been brought back by the National Trust for Scotland, that run a store within the town. The Hermitage, on the western side of the A9, is a countryside property that is likewise a National Trust for Scotland site. Birnam lies contrary 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 called in Shakespeare's Macbeth. The Highland games held at Birnam are the place of the World Haggis Eating Championships.