Fife Place-name Data

Blackfaulds

Blackfaulds * MAI S NO2901 3

Blakfaldis 1497 RMS ii no. 2343 [associated with Sythrum (Scheithum) MAI, q.v.]
Blakfawldis 1511 RMS ii no. 3567 [part of the lands of Sythrum (Schethum) MAI, q.v.]
Blaukfauldis 1603 Retours (Fife) no. 129 [part of the lands of Sythrum (Scerthum) MAI, q.v.]
Blackfaldis 1627 Retours (Fife) no. 384 [part of the lands of Sythrum (Schethum) MAI, q.v.]
Blakfauldis 1627 RMS viii no. 1058 [in the lands of Sythrum (Schethume)]

Sc black + Sc fauld

‘Black folds or enclosed pieces of ground used for cultivation’. Always associated with the lands of Sythrum MAI, hence the approximate NGR above. It could have lain north or south of the Leven (RMS ii no. 2343).

This place-name appeared in printed volume 2

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