OS1/13/113/45
| List of names as written | Various modes of spelling | Authorities for spelling | Situation | Description remarks |
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| CASTLE (Site of) | Castle (Site of) | Thomas Shaw Esqr. Writer Cupar Mr. Barclay Sheriff Clerk. Cupar |
[situation] Adjoining the Madras Academy. This applies to the place where the Castle was erected. It is said to have been a place of Considerable Strength. It was surrounded for the greater part by a marshy ground which bordered the Eden and Lady's Burn, and also by a strong wall. The Castle sustained many Sieges during Scotlands struggles for independence in the Reign of Edward 1st and his successors. It was also the scene of the cruel murder of the Wife and Family of Macduff by Macbeth, which brought on the latter Macduff's inveterate hatred and finally ended in his destruction. |
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(45 Parish of Cupar Sheet 5 Trace 7[Note] See page 47 -
[Note - arrowed to Remarks] Edward 1st = 1239 If Castle is as old as the Conquest = 1050 name should be in Old English on plan. o,m,o [Ordnance Map Office]
[Quotation]
"The ancient Castle of Cupar stood on the termination of the mound already described as running along the course of the Lady Burn. This is represented by Buchanan as a place of very considerable strength in the time of Edward Baliol. During the invasion of the English at that time, it was seized upon, and occupied by them till they were driven by famine to abandon it and return across the Forth to their own country. Its position at the junction of the Eden and Lady Burn favours the opinion, that, at a time when these streams were not so well guarded within their banks as they are now by artificial means, it must have been a fortress of considerable strength, and in a rude state must have presented considerable resistance to an assailing force.
"While workmen were employed some years ago in improving the line of road that runs to the east, several skeletons were found, which were conjectured to be those of soldiers who had fallen while conducting some assault upon this fortress. Now however, there remain no vestiges of the fortress" Stat: Acct: [Statistical Account] of Fifeshire page 5 & 4
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