From the old cross by the thatched cottage on the main street, walk through Kinrossie village, keeping the cross on your left. At the end of the street, turn right along the road signposted 'Collace Church and School'. This is a quiet road with mature trees on either side. Walk up until you reach Kirkton of Collace and its church. Kirkton of Collace and Collace are not the same place - they're just under a mile (1.4 km) apart. You can detour into the kirkyard here for a peek at the quaint Nairne Mausoleum, last resting place of William Nairne, Lord Dunsinane, the last of a line of local baronets. Built in 1813, it incorporates a 13th-century arch.

In front of the church, turn right and follow the obvious track to farm buildings on your left, then turn left at a fingerpost marked 'School Road – Path to B953'. This leads to a rutted tractor track which ascends through fields towards a mobile phone mast on your left. Past this, the path narrows to a rough strip and continues between fields to a gap between two patches of conifer woodland at the crest of the hill.

Pass through a gap in a tumbledown wire fence. A post waymarked with a yellow arrow in a green circle indicates the path. Keep straight on over a stretch of tussock grass and heather, where the path is just a faint trace. Continue to where it passes through the scant remains of another wire fence with a rotting wooden stile on your left, and go on gently downhill into birch woods. The path almost vanishes here, but you are guided by a line of old wooden fence posts on your left.

As the path emerges from the trees, look out for arrow-posts marking the way. Follow these downhill, with fields below on your right and a fir wood above on your left. Where the woods end, clamber over a wooden stile into a field. (Be careful here: the electric fence may be live.) Walk down the edge of the wide, sloping field and join the road by another stile.

Turn left and walk past a row of cottages, then a patch of pinewoods on your left, until you reach a junction. Turn left here, signed 'Collace', and follow the road. It's a quiet road, but watch out for traffic. Pass woods on the left that encircle Bandirran Hill. Walk past the quarry entrance on the right-hand side, and continue following the road through woodland to a sharp left bend with a metal gate on the right-hand side. 

Go through the kissing gate next to the gate (there's an information board and a sign saying 'No dogs') and walk up the grassy track, keeping to the fence line on the left-hand side. Reach rough moorland and continue uphill. At the top you come to the ancient fortifications on Dunsinane Hill.

Retrace your steps to rejoin the road, and walk straight on through Collace village. After the village, keep following the road to reach a junction. Turn left and walk along the narrow road to reach the church again. Turn right in front of the church, and walk back along the road. At the end, turn left to return to the starting point in Kinrossie.