Crail, Nethergate, Doocot Park, Garage And Garden Wall
Garage (Modern), Garden Wall (16th Century)
Site Name Crail, Nethergate, Doocot Park, Garage And Garden Wall
Classification Garage (Modern), Garden Wall (16th Century)
Alternative Name(s) Nunnery Walls
Canmore ID 70950
Site Number NO60NW 20
NGR NO 61538 07835
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/70950
- Council Fife
- Parish Crail
- Former Region Fife
- Former District North East Fife
- Former County Fife
NO60NW 20 61538 07835
(Name: NO 6155 0780) Nunnery (NR) (remains of)
OS 6" map (1938)
'...a nunnery is said to have existed near the Nethergate Port, of which only an entrance now remains; but at this entrance, human bones were found, when the street was levelled a few years ago'.
NSA 1845.
This nunnery is apocryphal. Its supposed existence is due to a misinterpretation of the fact that the nunnery of Haddington held the parish church and certain properties at Crail.
D E Easson 1957
At NO 6152 0781 there is the gable end of a building of considerable age (possibly to which the OS map refers) and the old wall fronting the Nethergate shows at least one blocked-up doorway.
Visited by OS (WDJ) 28 August 1968
