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Field Visit
Date October 1982
Event ID 1138662
Category Recording
Type Field Visit
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1138662
Kincardine NO 666 747 NO67SE 5
The site of the village of Kincardine, which was probably an ancient burgh but only comes on record in 1531 /2 when it was erected in liberum burgum, lies to the SW of Kincardine Castle (NO67NE 10). An estate plan of 1789 records the probable positions of the East and West Ports (NO 669 749 and 664 745 respectively), the market cross (see also NO67NE 8) and St Catherine's Chapel (NO67SE 5). At the beginning of the 17th century Kincardine was superseded by Stonehaven as the county town, and by 1790 only a few houses and 'seventy or eighty souls' remained.
RCAHMS 1982, visited October 1981
(NSA, xi, Kincardine, 84; Crawford 1789; Jervise 1885, i, 141; Mollyson 1893, 195-6; Cameron 1899, 148; Watt 1914, 205-8; Pryde 1965, 58, no. 213)
