Fife Place-name Data :: Kirkton Of Collessie

Kirkton Of Collessie

Kirkton Of Collessie # CLS S NO286133 1 60m

    Kirktoune de Collesse 1479 RMS ii no. 1414 [see *Millhill CLS, discussion]
    Kirktoun de Cullessy 1509 RMS ii no. 3363
    Kirktoun de Cullessy 1540 RMS iii no. 2168
    Kirktoun de Cullessie-mylne et Pitlochie cum molendino 1602 Retours (Fife) no. 111 [Sandilands of St Monans; probably error for ‘Kirkton of Collessie, *Millhill CLS and Pitlochie # CLS with mill’, as in other documents]
    Kirtoun de Collessie 1649 RMS ix no. 2097 [see *Millhill CLS]
    the Kirktoune of Collasey 1653 RMS x no. 183
    Kirktoune de Cullessie 1668 Retours (Fife) no. 1050 [see *Millhill CLS]

Sc kirktoun

‘Farm or village at the kirk of Collessie’; now known simply as the village of Collessie.

This place-name appeared in printed volume 4