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Priory [continued]
"The Priory of Loch Leven, dedicated to
St Serf, or Servanus, was situated in an island in Loch Leven. It was said
to have been founded by Brudus, the last except one of the Pictish Kings, who gave the island
to the monks or Culdees of Servanus." Old Stat. Acct. [Statistical Account]

"The Island called St Serf's Isle, having a flat, bare appearance, is near the South east extremity
of the Loch. On it there was a prory dedicated to St. Serf or Servanus, which must have
been placed here upwards of a thousand years ago, but no vestige of it is now to be seen.
"New Stat. Acct. [Statistical Account]

"In Loch Leven lies an islet of about 70 acres in extent, Called St. Serf's Island.On this islet anciently
Stood a priory dedicated to St. Serf or Servanus; and at Portmoak was the Site of its Church, and
the landing place of its Monks. The first, or an early Superior of the priory, or of a Culdee estab-
lishment which preceded it, is Said to have borne the name of Moak or St. Moak; and from Time
the landing place, and afterwards the Kirkton and the parish, are supposed to have been called
Portmoak. Some ruins of the priory still exist. The establishment is said to have been found
by a Pictish King and given it to the Culdees; and it afterwards became a dependency of the
Agustinian Abbey of St. Andrews. Its revenues in 1561 were £111.13.4 in money 1 Chalder and 12
bolls of bear; and 4 Chalders and 8 bolls of Oats. Among distinguished natives of Portmoak may
be named Andrew Winton, prior of Loch Leven in the reign of James I." Full. [Fullarton's] Gazetteer of Scotland.

"A religious house, which was dedicated to St. Servan, was erected, in the earliest times, on an
islet in Loch Leven. (The Register of St. Andrews relates, that Brude, the King of the Picts, gave the
island of Loch Leven to St. Serven, and the Culdees). Successive Kings, Macbeth, Malcolm III,
and Edgar, and his brother Ethelred, with the bishops, Maldevin and Modoch, and [continued]