Crail, 'priory'
Chapel (Period Unassigned)(Possible)
Site Name Crail, 'priory'
Classification Chapel (Period Unassigned)(Possible)
Canmore ID 70951
Site Number NO60NW 21
NGR NO 6163 0779
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
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- Council Fife
- Parish Crail
- Former Region Fife
- Former District North East Fife
- Former County Fife
NO60NW 21 6163 0779
(NO 6163 0779) Priory (NR) (site of)
OS 6" map (1938)
A ruined gable with Gothic windows, the remains of a building known as the Priory Walls and traditionally said to be the remains of a priory, was destroyed by the sea about 1801 and only some foundations of outworks remains. It was probably a small chape under the patronage of the Prioress of Haddington (giving rise to the local tradition of a priory).
J M Leighton 1840; NSA 1845.
A charter granting the Friars Preachers a site for erecting a church and monastery in the burgh of Crail is not genuine. There is no reliable evidence of a Dominican monastery at Crail.
D E Easson 1957
There are no traces of foundations at the site. No further information.
Visited by OS (WDJ) 28 August 1968