Kilminning Chapel

Kilminning Chapel

On the coast a little way north of the burgh of Crail (near Crail Airfield) is land known as Kilminning. This name is thought to derive from the Gaelic for ‘Church of Monan’. During the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries human bones were often dug up here. Following the discovery of further human remains in the 1960s, archaeological investigation was undertaken which revealed a long-cist cemetery and a rectangular stone building – possibly the remains of a chapel. The combination of the place name, burials, and foundations strongly suggest that Kilminning was an early medieval religious site.

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(1) Simon Taylor and Gilbert Márkus, The Place-Names of Fife (5 vols, Donington, 2006-2012), vol. 3, pp. 209-210. (2) ‘Kilminning (Crail Parish)’, in Discovery and Excavation in Scotland (1997), pp. 35-36 (3) Historic Environment Scotland, Canmore entry for ‘Kilminning Castle’: https://canmore.org.uk/site/35358/kilminning-castle [Accessed 23 September 2021].

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Kilminning Chapel

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Building

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Crail