Kilrenny

Human settlement in Scotland

Kilrenny

* Scottish Gaelic: Cill Reithnidh

Kilrenny from the air

Kilrenny

Location within Scotland

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* Fife

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56°14′N 2°41′W﻿ / ﻿56.233°N 2.683°W﻿ / 56.233; -2.683
Parish Church

Kilrenny (Scottish Gaelic: Cill Reithnidh) is a village in Fife, Scotland. Part of the East Neuk, it lies immediately to the north of (but inland and separate from) Anstruther on the south Fife coast.[1]

The first element of the name is from the Scottish Gaelic cill, meaning 'church'. The '-renny' element may perpetuate a worn down form of Etharnan or Itharnan, an early churchman who 'died among the Picts' in 669 according to the Annals of Ulster."[2] That Kilrenny is of early Christian origin is suggested both by the Kil- element of the place-name, and by the Skeith Stone,[3] a carved stone with marigold motif (circa 700?) which stands to the west of the village, possibly marking an ancient area of sanctity.

The village was formerly Upper Kilrenny,[1] until nearby Lower Kilrenny changed its name to Cellardyke in the 16th century. The oldest part of the present church is the 15th-century tower, with the body of the building rebuilt in 1807–08 (re-using the original stones as building rubble).

The village is a conservation area[4] has many well-preserved houses in the local vernacular style, with crow-stepped gables, datestones, forestairs, pan-tiled roofs etc.

## See also

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* Kilrenny (Parliament of Scotland constituency)

## References

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1. ^ a b "Kilrenny: Overview". Gazetteer for Scotland. Retrieved 27 December 2017.
2. ^ "Fife Place-name Data :: Kilrenny". fife-placenames.glasgow.ac.uk.
3. ^ "Skeith Stone | Canmore". canmore.org.uk. Retrieved 15 September 2017.
4. ^ "Kilrenny Conservation Area Appraisal and Management Plan". Fife Council. 5 April 2013. Retrieved 27 December 2017.

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