Kinglassie

Kinglassie ( or Cill Ghlaise) is a small village and parish in central Fife, Scotland. It is located two miles southwest of Glenrothes. It has a population of around () The civil parish has a population of 22,543 (in 2011). The village lies to the north of the Lochty Burn, southwest of Glenrothes in Fife, and two miles southeast of Perth and Kinross district. For many years, it was a weaving village, but in the 19th and 20th centuries it developed as a mining town.

==History== The name of the village derives from Scottish Gaelic, although the exact meaning is obscure. The name was first recorded as "Kilglassin" in 1127. The first element, kil, is from the Gaelic, cill, meaning monk's cell or church, though gradually gave way to kin or ceann, meaning head or end, by the 13th century. The element 'glassie' may refer to the Irish saint Glaisne (also commemorated in an Irish townland with the same Gaelic name: Kinglassan~Cill Ghlasáin), or may refer to the word glas meaning 'burn', either as glasain "place of the burn" or glaise, simply "of the burn". Taken together this gives "St Glaisne's Church" or "Church of the Burn" as possible meanings. It is certainly common for cill place names to contain the name of a saint, however the later tradition of a St Glastian or Glascinanus is probably a late medieval attempt to explain the place name, rather than a reflection of a genuinely early saint's cult. Almost nothing of this period remains to be seen in the parish, except for the Dogton Stone, a Pictish cross of the 9th or early 10th century, situated in a field about a mile (1.5 km) to the south, at grid reference – NT 236 968. The lower portion of the stone is all that remains of the cross and badly eroded decoration including a figure of an armed horseman above two beasts can be discerned. It is a scheduled monument.