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| List of names as written | Various modes of spelling | Authorities for spelling | Situation | Description remarks |
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| PRIORY (Remains of) | Priory (Remains of)\nPriory (Remains of)\nPriory (Remains of) | Revd. [Revernd] William Merson\nJames Inglis Esq.\nMr. J. Webster\nMr. J. Bowman | 020 | [Situation] In the Village of Crail\nAll that remains of this building is just Sufficient to point out where it once Stood. Its Site is near the Parish Church Close by the Sea shore, And there can be no doubt the encroachments of the sea have caused its gradual disappearance. From the Number of human bones found, it is supposed a grave Yard was here. |
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[Page] \n35 Parish of Crail. Plan 20B. Trace 7\n\n"It is generally believed that Crail was at one time the Seat of a priory dedicated to St. Rufus and when the last Stat. [Statistical] Acct. [Account] was written a ruinous gable with Gothic windows was Standing and bore the name of the Prior Walls. That gable was thrown down by the Sea about the year 1801 and there now only remains Some of the foundations of the outworKs to point out where it Stood. The adjoining ground however retains the name of the Prior's Croft And a Well near the Old building is still Called the Briery or Priory Well. As this is not mentioned among the religious Suppressed at the reformation Some have doubted the Common tradition but Leighton in his Fife illustrated, States that according to General Hutton there is an old manuscript inventory Among the Harleian manuscripts in the British Museum in which the following Charter is mentioned. "To the Prior of Crail of the Second teinds of the lands between the waters of Neithe and Nith." There was also a chapel dedicated to St. Rufe which had teinds belonging to it both parsonage and vicarage but its name is now only to be found in ancient Charters." Stat. Acct [Statistical Account] 1845. p. [page] 964\n\n[page signed] James Ireland c/a [Civil Assistant]\n5 July 1853
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Ordnance Survey - Fife and Kinross counties, OS Name Books - Fife and Kinross county - Volume 84 - Parishes of Kilrenny, Kingsbarn and Crail, OS1/13/84
This volume contains information on the place names found in the parishes of Kilrenny, Kingsbarn, and Crail.
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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