Tour Scotland Travel Video Winter Snow Drive A823 To Parish Church Pool of Muckhart

Tour Scotland travel video Blog of a sunny Winter snow, road trip drive, with music, North on the A823 road on ancestry visit to the parish church in Pool of Muckhart, Scottish Gaelic: Poll Mhuc-Àird, in Clackmannanshire, Scotland. The Gaelic name, Muc-àird, comes from '" muc " meaning Pig and " aird, meaning Height, and may derive from the fact that the surrounding fields may once have been used for pig farming. Previously Muckhart formed the southernmost tip of Perthshire. It was transferred to Clackmannanshire in a reorganisation of boundaries in 1971. A church in Muckhart is mentioned as early as 1470, when its " rector " is listed as John Andrew under the Diocese of St Andrews Cathedral in Fife. The final pre Reformation priest seems to have survived without replacement, John Sempill being in place from 1555 to 1570, being then replaced by Harry Colville, the first person termed " minister ". The ruins of this earlier church lie to the north east of the current church. The current parish church dates from the 18th century but is a plain Scots box chapel in style. In the churchyard is the family monument to the Christies of Cowden.

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