Parish Church And Graveyard Strathmiglo Fife Scotland

Tour Scotland 4K Spring travel video of the parish church and graveyard on visit to Strathmiglo, Fife. This church was built in 1787 at the top of Kirk Wynd near the edge of the village. It is at the west of the three separate graveyards relating to the present and earlier churches. It is on raised ground, enclosed by a rubble boundary wall which encloses the graveyards to the east and north of the church. Strathmiglo is sometimes thought to have belonged to the Mormaers of Fife in early times. Before 1350 it had become the centre of the shire of Strathmigloshire. It became a burgh of barony in the 16th century, by which time it belonged to the Scotts of Balwearie. Prior to the Reformation it was the site of a Collegiate church. Johnny Cash was of Scottish descent and his clan originated around the 12th century in the Strathmiglo area of Fife. The connection was traced back to when the niece of King Malcolm IV, born 1153, died 1165, who was named Cash or Cashel, married the Earl of Fife. The first American Cash connection came in 1612 when mariner William Cash sailed from Scotland to Salem, Massachusetts, America, with a boatload of pilgrims.

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