Old Photograph Kirk Street Markinch Fife Scotland

Old photograph of cottages and people on Kirk Street in Markinch village in Fife, Scotland. The name Markinch derives from the Scottish Gaelic Mark Innis. Mark is the Gaelic for horse, specifically a steed or charger, and innis is the Gaelic for a meadow or an island, here probably meaning a piece of land rising out of or above a body of water or a bog. The earliest written reference is a charter of around 1050 transferring ownership of the church to the Culdees of Loch Leven.

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