FIFE FAMILY HISTORY SOCIETY
"OLD MARKINCH"
Picture and text reproduced by kind permission of
Stenlake Publications
Kirk Brae, Markinch
The Hamlet of Kirk Markinch, as it was known during
the seventeenth century, consisted of steep and narrow streets around
the church; the village out towards the common was known as Auld
Markinch. In old charters the roads are described as gates. These
roads were very narrow, and items such as meal and coal had to be
conveyed in sacks on horseback, as no carts could make their way
through the narrow streets.
(Text by William Fiet)