Saints in Scottish Place-Names
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Rosyth, former parish, Dunfermline
Grid reference
NT 085 828 (accurate position)
Six-figure easting & northing
308500 682800
Latitude
56.02939868399398
Longitude
-3.4684201696888928
County
Fife
Nearby places
St Margaret's Stone, settle't Dunfermline (1.84 miles)
St Margaret's Hope, Inverkeithing (1.91 miles)
St Margaret's Stone, Dunfermline (2.02 miles)
St Leonard's Place, Dunfermline (2.36 miles)
Abercorn, parish (2.37 miles)
Object Classification
Parish (non-extant in 1975)
Is linear feature?
No
Notes
NGR for the ruins of the medieval kirk.
Relationships with other parishes
Within Dunfermline, parish
Parish details
Rosyth now part of Dunfermline DFL
Parish TLA
RHX
Medieval diocese
Dunkeld
Parish notes
Rosyth RHX was one of the eight early medieval parishes in Fothrif which belonged to the diocese of Dunkeld. Rosyth RHX, including its detached portion within Dunfermline DFL comprising Logie and Urquhart, was united with Inverkeithing IKG in 1611 (RMS vii no.442 col.4). In 1891 the detached portion went to DFL, while North Queensferry, which had formed a detached portion of DFL within IKG, was made part of the latter. In 1914 the whole of what had been RHX, along with some lands on the western edge of IKG, were attached to DFL for civil purposes, and it is these boundaries which appear on O.S. maps produced after that date. For more details see Stephen 1921, 1-2. See also Inverkeithing High School, 1982, The Story of Rosyth (Inverkeithing, revised edition), which has several old estate maps [which I have photocopies of]..
Names
1 head-name linked to this place ?Rosyth
This is not a hagiotoponym.Head name
Rosyth
Place
Rosyth, former parish, Dunfermline
Certainty that this name applies to this place
Certain
The status of this name is
Obsolete
Is this a current OS form? ?
No
Is this the original referent of the place?
No
Is the association of this name to this object hypothetical?
No