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At the east end of the town on the sea coast, the high road only intervening are the remains of a
chapel, called St. Mungo's Chapel of which the tradition is that it was on or near the
place where St. Mungo or Kentigern was born. He is said to have been the Son of Eugenius III
King of the Scots and of a daughter of Lothus King of the Picts. His mother Thamitis finding her
self with child out of Shame and apprehension of her father's wrath Stole privately away and
entering a vessel that She found at the nearest coast was by the winds and waves cast
on land where the town of Culross is now Situated and there was delivered and leaving
the child with a nurse returned home. His parents being unknown he was brought to
Servanns amd baptized and brought up by him. This Servanns or St. Serf lived at the
time in an hermitage where the monastery was afterwards built and was as is said
Son of a King of Canaan. After various peregrinations he departed this life at Culross
of which town he became the tutelar Saint and in honour of him a whole day annually was
formerly Solemnized by the people here. &c. &c.
Old Stat. Acct. vol. [Old Statistical Account volume] 10 p. [page] 146