Spring Walk Moncreiffe Island Perth Perthshire Scotland

Tour Scotland 4K travel video of a wee Spring walk on Moncreiffe Island on visit to Perth Perthshire. The Scottish name Moncreiffe is a habitational name, taken on from Moncreiffe Hill near the Royal Burgh of Perth. The surname itself came from the name of the lands granted to Sir Matthew de Muncrefe by King Alexander II in 1248. It is claimed that Sir Matthew was a member of a cadet branch of a family desceded from Maldred, brother of King Duncan and a descendant of Niall of the Nine Hostages, King of Ireland, who lived circa 400 A.D. in Tara. The surname Moncreiffe was first found in Perthshire, Gaelic: Siorrachd Pheairt, a former county in the present day Council Area of Perth and Kinross, located in central Scotland, where William de Moncrefe and John de Moncref, rendered homage to King Edward I of England during the latter's brief conquest of Scotland in 1296. In that same year Thomas de Mouncref was taken as a Scots prisoner of war at Dunbar Castle. The estate of Easter Moncreiffe was gifted to a younger son of the family in 1312. Moncreiffe Island, also known as Friarton Island, divides the River Tay into two channels as it flows through Perth, and is crossed by the railway bridge, which conveys the line east through the Carse of Gowrie to Dundee, crosses the river via the northern tip of the island. Also at the northern tip was a filter bed which was part of a scheme designed by local school teacher Adam Anderson, born 1780, died 1846, to take water from the Tay and deliver drinking water to the town via the waterworks in Marshall Place.

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