Fife Place-name Data

The Fluthers

The Fluthers CUP S NO377147 1

    Fluthers 1820 Wood/Cupar [beside Bow Butts][148]
    The Fluthers 2007 OS 1:10,000 (digital version)

Sc fluther

‘Boggy ground, marsh’, it is on low-lying ground between the Lady Burn and Castlefield. ‘In Cupar any hangings would normally take place at the Fluthers, and the last public hanging was held there on 5th July 1852’ http://www.scotland247.co.uk/cupar-fife2.htm (accessed February 2008). For a reference to bowls being played on Fluthers in 1743, see CUP Intro., Cupar and Justice. It is now a car-park.

/ðəˈflʌðərz/

This place-name appeared in printed volume 4

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