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12 Parish of Cupar Sheet 6

[Quotation]
"Another striking remembrance of the olden times is a small conical eminence on the opposite side of the Eden and lying a little farther down the river than school hill. This which at the time of the last Stat. Acct: [Statistical Account] was under cultivation is now covered with a young thriving plantation belonging to the proprietor of Tarvit. It was the site of the Church of the parish of St. Michael and formed the burying ground of that parish A few years ago when an alteration was making upon the public road many of the depositories of the dead were broken open and the remains of their inmates brought to view after a repose of at least two centuries. This receptacle of the dead has thus been again converted into common earth. In the same manner has the burial ground of the parish of Cupar which lay at a remoter period at a distance of fully a mile to the northwest of the town and of the present burial ground, " etc. Stat. Acct. [Statistical Account] 1845 page 5

[Quotation]
" Near the garden gate of Tarvet and on a farm belonging to the estate is a little knoll [where] the ancient Church of Tarvet stood. It was dedicated to St. Michael and hence was called St Michael of Tarvet. † Human bones were at one time often discovered here by the operations of the plough and also at the time the river Eden was straightened."

† "It is found that St. Michaelis Kirk is unplanted and the parochmaris thairof being annexed to na uther neither subject to any particular ar verie offensive to all that ar adjacent to thame. It is thocht meitt thairfoir that the minister and sessioune of Coupar have ane cair of thame and hold thame under discipline. - Records of the Synod of Coupar April 1612 p. 51" Leighton's Hist [History] of Fife Vol. [Volume] 2, p. 39