In the 1650s, units of Cromwell’s army occupied and ransacked Cellardyke and Anstruther as the men of both towns had supported the Royalist cause at the Battle of Kilsyth. Eventually,…

Kilrenny was accidentally enrolled by the Convention of Royal Burghs. This permitted representation by a commissioner at the Scottish Parliament in 1612. The ensuing Kilrenny Town Councils considered the Burgh…

Patrick Adamson, Archbishop of St Andrews, granted a charter to John Beaton of Balfour, conferring upon him the new seaport of Skinfasthaven and erecting the town of Kilrenny to a…

John Lauder, the Vicar of Kilrenny, drafted a charter to furnish Kilrenny with taxes from the fish caught by local fishermen. In return, the church agreed to fund repair and…

Kilrenny had returned to the Crown by the reign of James lll (1468-1488) and the lands were conferred upon the family of Béthune of Balfour, French nobility who had settled…

During the 1200s the Abbot of Dryburgh continued to assert his right to a portion of the revenue from the fish landed by the Kilrenny fishermen. Image: Seal of Abbot…

In 1177 the Lands of Kilrenny were gifted to the monks of the Dryburgh Abbey by Countess Ada de Warenne, the Scottish princess and mother of King Malcom lV and…

Kilrenny Church was dedicated to St Ethernan by David de Berham, Bishop of St Andrews, previously Chamberlain to King Alexander lll. The saint would also be attributed the names of…

During the 9th Century Viking pirates from Norway and Denmark invaded religious settlements all round the coast of Scotland, including Fife. In 875AD it was recorded that they plundered the…