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Knockdavie Castle

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31: 284:…Knockdavie Castle. It is now only a fragment of a ruin. Two patches of blackened wall are all that show its site. Knock a hill and dabhoch, pronounce davoc, a farm, the hill farm, is evidently it's derivation, and its appearance exactly corresponds to this. 184:(stone house) in 1561, which survives in the name of the modern day adjacent farmhouse. It is said to have belonged, in the seventeenth century, to a 236:
Places like Knockdavie Castle in Fife may not make it on to any Top 10 lists any time soon, but they're still historically significant
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The Castellated and Domestic Architecture of Scotland from the Twelfth to the Eighteenth Century
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Ruined 17th-century house in Burntisland parish, Fife, Scotland
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The New Statistical Account of Scotland: Fife, Kinross
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Burntisland
Fife
Scotland
56°04′50″N 3°16′03″W / 56.08056°N 3.26750°W / 56.08056; -3.26750
Historic Environment Scotland
Scheduled monument
SM5251
Burntisland
Fife
Scotland
Gaelic
Douglas
The Scots Worthies
Covenanters
"What Is A Castle Anyway?"
The Scots Magazine
DC Thomson
"Knockdavie, Fife Place-name Data"
Rev. J. W. Taylor
Historical Antiquities of Fife
"Knockdavie Castle"
"Knockdavie, Fife Place-name Data"
Canmore
Historic Environment Scotland
David MacGibbon
Thomas Ross
The Castellated and Domestic Architecture of Scotland from the Twelfth to the Eighteenth Century
D. Douglas
The New Statistical Account of Scotland: Fife, Kinross

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