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Ordnance Survey - Fife and Kinross counties, OS Name Books - Fife and Kinross county - Volume 38 - Parishes of Newburgh and Abdie, OS1/13/38

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"The various tumuli around the cross, (Macduffs cross) seen by a former generation and
said to contain the earthly remains of those who failed to establish the claims of Kindred,
have given way to the levelling operations of the ploughshare and the nightly traveller is
no longer haunted even in imagination by the shriek of the ghosts that were heard at
no very remote period by the superstitious of the neighbourhood. There is however
about 200 yards to the westward a cairn of stones which is called "Sir Roberts Prap"
and which is said to contain the body of Sir Robert Balfour Laird of Denmiln
who was slain in a duel there by some neighbouring proprietor about the beginning of
last century." New Stat. Acct. [Statistical Account] of Fife page 71

Ordnance Survey - Fife and Kinross counties, OS Name Books - Fife and Kinross county - Volume 38 - Parishes of Newburgh and Abdie, OS1/13/38

This volume contains information on the place names found in the parishes of Newburgh, and Abdie.

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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