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Kilconquhar
Kilconquhar (/kɪlˈkɒnkər/ ⓘ, locally also /kɪˈn(j)ʌxər/ ⓘ kih-NYUKH-ər) is a village and parish in Fife in Scotland. It includes the small hamlet of Barnyards. It is bounded by the parishes of Elie, Ceres, Cameron, St Monans, Carnbee, Newburn and Largo. It is approximately 9 miles from north to south. Much of the land is agricultural or wooded. The village itself is situated inland, north of Kilconquhar Loch. Also in the civil parish are Colinsburgh and Largoward, the latter since 1860 being a separate ecclesiastical parish.
The coastal village and royal burgh of Earlsferry was formerly in the parish, but in 1891 the burgh and that part of the parish south of the (now disused) Fife Coast Railway line and Cocklemill Burn was transferred to the parish of Elie.
The name, first recorded in the 12th century as Kilconcat, comes from the Gaelic cill Dhúnchadha, meaning "church of (Saint) Dúnchad". The reference may be to Dúnchad mac Cinn Fáelad, an 8th-century abbot of Iona. Alternatively, the second element may be Chonchaidh, referring to an otherwise unknown saint by the name Conchad.
Kilconquhar Castle was formerly owned by the Adams of Kilconquhar. Adam of Kilconquhar married Marjorie, Countess of Carrick to become the Earl of Carrick. Adam went to the Crusades with Prince Edward of England and died in Acre. His widow subsequently married Robert de Brus, 6th Lord of Annandale, who thus became Earl of Carrick and Lord of Kilconquhar. Their son was Robert the Bruce.
There was another castle in the parish called Rires or Reres, belonging to the Forbes family. Margaret Beaton, Lady Reres, was a companion of Mary, Queen of Scots, and her husband Arthur Forbes was involved in the assassination of John Wood. The ruins of the castle were demolished and cleared away in the 19th century.
In the 18th century the village was noted as a weaving centre. This industry employed 235 persons in 1856 but faded in the late 19th century. The population was at a high in 1836 of 558 but dropped to 350 in 1881. By 2011 it had fallen to just over 200.
Kil in the name implies an early Christian origin for the church, but no early remains or carved stones of the period have been identified.[citation needed] The situation of the medieval parish church, on a mound near a loch, is a typical one for early sites.[citation needed]
Kilconquhar Parish Church is within the Church of Scotland. The historic church building is still in regular use; it is an exact, but larger scale, copy, of Cockpen and Carrington Parish Church in Midlothian has an unusually tall tower for such a small parish.
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Kilconquhar
Kilconquhar (/kɪlˈkɒnkər/ ⓘ, locally also /kɪˈn(j)ʌxər/ ⓘ kih-NYUKH-ər) is a village and parish in Fife in Scotland. It includes the small hamlet of Barnyards. It is bounded by the parishes of Elie, Ceres, Cameron, St Monans, Carnbee, Newburn and Largo. It is approximately 9 miles from north to south. Much of the land is agricultural or wooded. The village itself is situated inland, north of Kilconquhar Loch. Also in the civil parish are Colinsburgh and Largoward, the latter since 1860 being a separate ecclesiastical parish.
The coastal village and royal burgh of Earlsferry was formerly in the parish, but in 1891 the burgh and that part of the parish south of the (now disused) Fife Coast Railway line and Cocklemill Burn was transferred to the parish of Elie.
The name, first recorded in the 12th century as Kilconcat, comes from the Gaelic cill Dhúnchadha, meaning "church of (Saint) Dúnchad". The reference may be to Dúnchad mac Cinn Fáelad, an 8th-century abbot of Iona. Alternatively, the second element may be Chonchaidh, referring to an otherwise unknown saint by the name Conchad.
Kilconquhar Castle was formerly owned by the Adams of Kilconquhar. Adam of Kilconquhar married Marjorie, Countess of Carrick to become the Earl of Carrick. Adam went to the Crusades with Prince Edward of England and died in Acre. His widow subsequently married Robert de Brus, 6th Lord of Annandale, who thus became Earl of Carrick and Lord of Kilconquhar. Their son was Robert the Bruce.
There was another castle in the parish called Rires or Reres, belonging to the Forbes family. Margaret Beaton, Lady Reres, was a companion of Mary, Queen of Scots, and her husband Arthur Forbes was involved in the assassination of John Wood. The ruins of the castle were demolished and cleared away in the 19th century.
In the 18th century the village was noted as a weaving centre. This industry employed 235 persons in 1856 but faded in the late 19th century. The population was at a high in 1836 of 558 but dropped to 350 in 1881. By 2011 it had fallen to just over 200.
Kil in the name implies an early Christian origin for the church, but no early remains or carved stones of the period have been identified.[citation needed] The situation of the medieval parish church, on a mound near a loch, is a typical one for early sites.[citation needed]
Kilconquhar Parish Church is within the Church of Scotland. The historic church building is still in regular use; it is an exact, but larger scale, copy, of Cockpen and Carrington Parish Church in Midlothian has an unusually tall tower for such a small parish.