Fife Place-name Data

Friarflat

Friarflat * LOG S NO3819 2

    Frereflate 1471 RMS ii no. 1039 [St Andrews Church land; with Kedlock]
    Frastlat 1611 RMS vii no. 464 col. 2 [for Frarflat? See Kedlock LOG]
    Frierflett 1623 RMS viii no. 469 [see *Prior-Kedlock]
    Frierflat 1643 RMS ix no. 1459 [see *Prior Kedlock]
    Frierflat 1644 Retours (Fife) no. 669 [David Kinnear of that Ilk, lands of Kedlock and *Friarflat alias Fernyfaulds, in lordship of St Andrews Priory]
    Freirfleit 1696 Retours (Fife) no. 1387 [see *Prior-Kedlock LOG]

Sc friar + Sc flat

‘Friar’s or friars’ (level) field’; the friars in this case being the Augustinian canons of St Andrews (see Friarton FGN, above, and Friarsmill SLO, below).

This place-name appeared in printed volume 4