Tour Scotland 4K travel video, with Scottish music, of the interior of St Athernase Church on ancestry, genealogy, family history visit to Leuchars, Fife, Britain, United Kingdom. St Athernase Church is a Romanesque church. It remains in use as a Church of Scotland parish church. "Athernase" is probably an anglicised form of the name Itharnán, found also in Fife at Kilrenny, and on the Isle of May, an Irish missionary who " died among the Picts " in 669 according to the Annals of Ulster. St Athernase Church was built in between 1183 and 1187 by Robert de Quinci, a Norman who had already built nearby Leuchars Castle. It was dedicated to St Athernase in 1244: thought to be St Ethernesc, an associate of Saint Columba who spent his later life in Fife. Of interest to folks with ancestry, genealogy or Scottish Family Roots in Scotland who may wish to visit one day. Find things to see and do in Scotland where you are always welcome.
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