Baltilly
Baltilly CER S NO397115 1 362 70m
Bal<t>aly 1410 RMS i no. 927 [RMS editor reads Balcaly; Robert duke of Albany grants to William Ideill (Idille) of *Muirbreks (Murebrakis) CUP all the third part of the baronies of Baltilly and Kingarroch (Kyngerrock) CER lying in the barony of Ceres (Seres)]
tertiam partem de Baltuly 1474 RMS ii no. 1163 [the king confirms to John Kinninmonth of Craighall CER ‘the lands of two thirds of the barony of Ceres’ (terras duarum partium baronie de Seres), including ‘the third part of Baltilly’, of Kingarroch CER, and of Pitscottie CER; see Ceres, below, for more details]
Bawtuly 1490 RMS ii no. 1961 [the king confirms to John Baxter (Baxtar) junior, burgess of Cupar, and his heirs, ‘a ninth part of the lands of Kingarroch CER and Baltilly CER’ (nonam partem terrarum de Kingarrow et Bawtuly), which the five daughters of the late William Wright (Wricht) burgess of Cupar resign; see also Arnot’s Comb CUP, PNF 4]
Baltuly 1497 RMS ii no. 2360 [king confirms to Alexander Skrymgeour a ninth (literally ‘his third part of a third part’ (tertiam partem tertie partis) of the lands of Baltilly and Kingarroch (Kingarrok) CER]
Baltuly 1510 RMS ii no. 3427 [to William Scott of Balwearie KDT; see Ceres, below]
Baltullie 1517 Fife Ct. Bk. 398 [17th c. copy]
Baltuly 1529 RSS i no. 4092
Baltulie 1579 Retours (Fife) no. 1456 [James Scott of Balwearie]
Baltullie 1580 Retours (Fife) no. 1462 [Henry Baxter of Cupar, ‘in two nine-parts’ (in 2 novem partibus) of the lands of Baltilly]
Batulie 1601 Retours (Fife) no. 92 [Nicholas Baxter of Cupar, ‘in two nine-parts’ (in duabus novem partibus) of the lands of Baltilly]
Battullie 1608 Retours (Fife) no. 197 [Nicholas Baxter, ‘in a ninth part’ (in nona parte) of the lands of Kingarroch (Kingarrok) CER and Baltilly]
Battulye 1619 RMS vii no. 2111 [a third of the lands of Baltilly and Kingarroch (Kingarrok) CER]
Pittillie 1612 RMS vii no. 644
Baltullie 1618 Retours (Fife) no. 278 [James Scrymgeour of Fairdle, a third part of a third part (i.e. a ninth part) of the lands of Baltilly and Kingarroch (Kingarrock) CER in the barony of Ceres (Seres)]
Pittullye alias Batullye 1623 RMS viii no. 463
Baidly 1654 Blaeu (Pont) East Fife
Pittulloch 1654 Blaeu (Gordon) Fife
Baltullo mill 1790s OSA, 522
Baltully 1828 SGF [and Baltully Mill]
Baltilly 1856 OS 6 inch 1st edn
G baile and G pett + G tulach
‘Mound- or hillock-farm’ cf Pittillock FAL and Pitillock, Arngask PER, FIF. The original lands of Baltilly probably approximate to those of OS Pathf. Baltilly Farm (NO390112) with Denhead NO388105, q.v.
For the variation between the generics baile and pett, both of which roughly translate as ‘farm, land-holding’, see Taylor 1997.
/balˈtɪlɪ/ or /bəlˈtɪlɪ/[19]
This place-name appeared in printed volume 2