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Ordnance Survey - Fife and Kinross counties, OS Name Books - Fife and Kinross county - Volume 127 - Parishes of Carnock, Dunfermline, Torryburn and Saline, OS1/13/127

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Tuilzies continued from page 16
"In a pretty otherwise plain field N[orth] E[ast] of the Village of Torryburn there is a flat stone raised upon one end of a shape nearly oblong, and measuring from the Surface to the top about 8 feet and about 4 ½ in breadth. Round the edge of it there is a deep circle, and on each of its sides a number of rises, all of which wear the appearance of art and antiquity. At about 18 or 20 paces from this stone, there is a number of smaller ones, which from their present position, seem to have former part of a circle. This place is thought to have been the scene of a battle in some former period, and these stones to mark the graves of some of the chiefs, who had fallen in the engagement. And the supposition is rendered highly probable by the name which it still bears, Tollzies, which is evidently a corruption of the Scotch word Tulzie, which signifies a fight". Ols Stat[istical] Acc[oun]t.
Tuilzie -- A quarrel, A broil, A combat. Jamison Scottish Dict[ionary].

Ordnance Survey - Fife and Kinross counties, OS Name Books - Fife and Kinross county - Volume 127 - Parishes of Carnock, Dunfermline, Torryburn and Saline, OS1/13/127

This volume contains information on the place names found in the parishes of Carnock, Dunfermline, Torryburn, and Saline.

Ordnance Survey - Fife and Kinross counties

Ordnance Survey was established in the 18th century to create maps, surveys and associated records for the entirety of Great Britain. These records are arranged by county. This entry has been created to enable searching for Ordnance Survey records for the counties of Fife in the east of Scotland and Kinross in central Scotland. The boundaries of these counties were altered by the Boundary Commissioners in 1891.

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