Ryehill
Ryehill # LEU S NO452217 1 20m
Ryhill 1580 RMS iv no. 3033 [see Kinstair LEU]
Ryehills 1658 Retours (Fife) no. 882 [lands of Kinstair and Ryehill]
Ryhill 1688 Retours (Fife) no. 1292 [lands of Kinstair and Ryehill]
Ryehill 1700 Retours (Fife) no. 1440 [lands of Kinstair and Ryehill]
Ryehill 1785 RHP1684 [the name of a field lying south west of the castle]
Sc rye + Sc hill
‘Hill where rye grows’. It lay only a few hundred metres south-west of the castle motte. In charters it is always linked with Kinstair # LEU. It is shown on the 1785 estate plan as lying on the east side of the road where the old road to Fordel and Craigie forked east off the main road north-west out of Leuchars village (the A919) (RHP1684).
This place-name appeared in printed volume 4