Fife Place-name Data :: Prior-kedlock

Prior-kedlock

Prior-kedlock * LOG S NO3819 2

    terrarum de Pryour-Caithlock alias Frierflett et Fairnyfauldis 1623 RMS viii no. 469 [teinds ‘of lands of *Prior-Kedlock alias *Friarflat and *Fernyfaulds’; see below and LOG Intro., Medieval Lands]
    Pryour-Caithlok et Frierflat alias Fairnyfauld 1643 RMS ix no. 1459 [see below and LOG Intro., Medieval Lands]
    Prior-Catthlock 1696 Retours (Fife) no. 1387 [Agnes Kinnear, lands of Prior-Kedlock, *Friarflat (Freirfleit) and Fernyfaulds (Fernifaulds)]
    Pryorcaithlock 1696 Retours (Fife) no. 1389 [Agnes Kinnear]

Sc prior + en Kedlock

That part of the lands of Kedlock belonging to a priory, in this case the Priory of St Andrews. It presumably represented the carucate of land in Kedlock which had been granted originally to the hospital of St Leonards in the reign of Malcolm IV by Simon son of Michael (of Kinnear) (see RRS i no. 138).

The ‘*Prior-Kedlock alias *Friarflat and *Fernyfaulds’ of 1623 (RMS viii no. 469) is best seen as an error for ‘*Prior-Kedlock and *Friarflat alias *Fernyfaulds’, and this is in fact what we find in 1643 (RMS ix no. 1459).

This place-name appeared in printed volume 4