Tour Scotland Video Drive From Kilrenny To Crail East Neuk Of Fife

Tour Scotland video of a drive East on the Anstruther road along the coast from Kilrenny on ancestry visit to Crail, East Neuk of Fife, Scotland. Crail probably dates from at least as far back as the Pictish period, and there is a Dark Age cross-slab preserved in the parish kirk, itself dedicated to the early holy man St. Maelrubha. Crail became a Royal Burgh in the 1178. Robert the Bruce granted permission to hold markets on a Sunday, in the Marketgait, where the Mercat Cross now stands in Crail. This practice was still continuing in the 16th century, causing concern in the freshly puritanical circles of Edinburgh such that John Knox was moved to deliver a sermon in Crail Parish Church, damning the fishermen of the East Neuk for fishing on a Sunday. Despite the protests, the markets continued and were amongst the largest in Europe for their time.

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