Fife Place-name Data

Long Craig

Long Craig FGN CR NO3926 1 351 0m

    Langcraig 1597 RMS vi no. 637 [‘lands of Wormit called Long Craig’ (terras de Wormet Langcraig nuncupat.)]
    (salmon fishing called) Langcraig 1629 Retours (Fife) no. 417 [see Wormit FGN, below, for more details]
    Long-craig 1656 Retours (Fife) no. 859 [salmon fishing; see Wormit FGN]
    Long Craig 1855 OS 6 inch 1st edn

Sc lang + Sc craig

‘Long rock’, referring to a rock on the shore at the south end of the Tay Rail Bridge. It also came to be applied to a piece of land.

This place-name appeared in printed volume 4

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