Cassingray
Cassingray CBE S NO486074 2 190m
Gasgingrei 1189 x 1195 RRS ii no. 286 [o.c.; in Kellieshire, granted by William I to Robert, son of Henry Pincerne, by those bounds which Archenbald abbot of Dunfermline and my men perambulated, with the common grazing ‘of the muir of Kellie’ (de mora de Kellin)]
Glasgingrei 1195 x 1198 RRS ii no. 402 [to William, son of Robert, son of Henry Pincerne]
Casgengrey 1266 Laing Chrs. no. 8 [CBE Introduction, Lords and Marches]
(land of) Glasgyngrey 1282 Hist. MSS. Comm. 5th Report, 624, no. 4 [see CBE Introduction, Lords and Marches, for context]
(Ada of) Glasgyngrey 1282 Hist. MSS. Comm. 5th Report, 624, no. 4 [an heir-portioner of the late William of Cassingray]
(Gilbert of) Caskyngray x 1293 Hist. MSS. Comm. 5th Report, 624, no. 5
(land of) Caskyngray x 1293 Hist. MSS. Comm. 5th Report, 624, no. 5 [Gilbert of Cassingray son and heir of Laurence and Ellota of Cassingray grants all his land of Cassingray to Nicholas de Hay lord of Errol; dated thus in printed source, but Fasti (Watt and Murray) date one of witnesses, John (Fraser) archdeacon of St Andrews, 1296–97]
Gaskingrai 1294 Spalding Misc. ii, 313 [Erroll Papers no. xvii; one of the possessions of Nicholas de Hay, dated at Lindores in the second year of the reign of King John]
Castingray 1304 CDS v no. 361 [for Cascingray; 7 April 1304 Edward I of England at Cassingray]
Castyngrei 1304 CDS v no. 362 [for Cascyngrei; 8 April 1304 Edward I of England at Cassingray]
Kasyngray 14 th century RMS ii no. 286 [endorsement of this charter in a 14th-century hand]
Cassingray 1508 RMS ii no. 3176
Cassingray 1515 Fife Ct. Bk. 1
Cascingray 1516 Fife Ct. Bk. 54
Cassingray 1541 RMS iii no. 2517
Cassingray c.1560 s Purves 154 [£4]
Casingray 1638 Retours (Fife) no. 568 [Gilbert earl of Erroll, Lord Hay and ‘great constable of Scotland’ (magnus regni Scotiae constabularius), with other lands united in the barony of Erroll]
Cosingray 1654 Blaeu (Pont) East Fife
Cassingray 1654 Blaeu (Gordon) Fife
the Laird of Cassengray 1667 Lamont’s Diary 200
Cassingray 1753 Roy sheet 18, 1
Castengray 1775 Ainslie/Fife [‘D Bethune Esqur.’]
Cassongray 1786 RHP2153
Cossongry 1787 RHP2147
Cassongray 1787 RHP2147
Cassingray 1790s OSA, 110 [coal being worked there]
Cassingray 1827 Ainslie/East Fife
Cassingray 1828 SGF [= OS Pathf. South Cassingray]
South Cassingray 1828 SGF [= OS Pathf. East Cassingray]
Bungs of Cassingray 1855 OS 6 inch 1st edn
East Cassingray 1855 OS 6 inch 1st edn
North Cassingray 1855 OS 6 inch 1st edn
South Cassingray 1855 OS 6 inch 1st edn
West Cassingray 1855 OS 6 inch 1st edn
G gasg + G an + G greigh
‘Ridge of the horse-stud or horse-studs’. G greigh (f.), OIr graig (n. sing.) ‘horses’, ‘horse stud’. The difference in the development of Cassingray as opposed to Balgreggie ADN (PNF 1), which probably contains the same word, can probably be explained by the fact that graig, as an i-stem, had both a palatal (soft) g and a non-palatal (hard) g, depending on its case, for example palatal in the nom. sing. and gen. pl., but non-palatal in the gen. sing. (grega). Cassingray (as well as Mungrey CLS, discussed under Minnie’s Green KTT, PNF 2), and Inchgray # LEU (PNF 4) all show the development of the palatal ending, Balgreggie the non-palatal.
Cassingray was reckoned to be half a ploughgate (or davoch?)[68] in the late twelfth century (RRS ii no. 286).
The name appears on OS Pathf. 374 in East Cassingray NO490069, North Cassingray (twice: NO483083 and NO488078), South Cassingray and West Cassingray NO476072. The above NGR is supplied by South Cassingray, which appears to be the site of Castengray (unaffixed) on Ainslie/Fife (1775) and Cassingray on SGF (1828). This latter map shows Cassingray for OS Pathf. South Cassingray, North Cassingray for the more northerly OS Pathf. North Cassingray (NO483083), and South Cassingray for OS Pathf. East Cassingray.
/ˈkasən gre:/ or /ˌkasənˈgre:/[69]
This place-name appeared in printed volume 3