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Extract from the Stat: Acct: [Statistical Account] of Fifeshire, page 356

" The parish of Dunino, pronounced by the inhabitants Dununie, is of more consideration for its Antiquity, neighbourhood, and recent rapidity of improvement, than for its extent, or value as a Section of the County. The reporter to Sir John Sinclair on this parish first assurres that its name is Den-ino, which it is not: And then proceeds to account for its derivation from words Signifying"a Village on a large and deep den" But there has not been, time out of mind, anything which can be called a village in the parish: And the "den, so deep and large", is nothing more than the beds which have been formed by two little streams, which after their union are able to turn a Saw-mill. For fifty four years after the Commencement of the Parochial register in 1643, the name of the parish is uniformly spelt Duynyno, Duynynow, or Dunnonow, the first Syllable being always "Dun", till 1697 when it was first Corrupted into "Dennino."