Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for Rathillet

Rathillet, a small village, with a U.P. church, in Kilmany parish, Fife, 4½ miles N by W of Cupar. The estate of Rathillet belonged for ages, till about 1772, to the family of Halkerstone or Hackston, of whom David Hackston was one of the murderers of Archbishop Sharp on Magus Muir.—Ord. Sur., sh. 48, 1868.


(F.H. Groome, Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland (1882-4); © 2004 Gazetteer for Scotland)

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Feature Description: "a small village, with a UP church"   (ADL Feature Type: "populated places")
Administrative units: Kilmany ScoP       Fife ScoCnty

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