Clackmannan and Kinross . e dead two young menat Tillicoultry ; of the pathetic death at that place of hispet goat, or lamb ; how he rescued from the watersof the Forth an infant, who later became St much at least is true, that St Serf lived and that,from Culross as centre, he went out preaching andteaching, visiting, among other places, Tullibody, Tilli-coultry and Alva. A well at Aha, a bridge over theDevon, and an island in Loch Le\en, commemoratehis name. One of the greatest events of the ninth century wasthe union of the Picts and the Scots (844) under KennethMacAlpin. No preci
Clackmannan and Kinross . e dead two young menat Tillicoultry ; of the pathetic death at that place of hispet goat, or lamb ; how he rescued from the watersof the Forth an infant, who later became St much at least is true, that St Serf lived and that,from Culross as centre, he went out preaching andteaching, visiting, among other places, Tullibody, Tilli-coultry and Alva. A well at Aha, a bridge over theDevon, and an island in Loch Le\en, commemoratehis name. One of the greatest events of the ninth century wasthe union of the Picts and the Scots (844) under KennethMacAlpin. No precise and satisfactory account of theunion is preser\cd. It is conjectured that Kenneth had HISTORY 53 a plausible claim to the Pictish crown, ami taking; ad-vantage of an invasion of Pictland by the Northmen—?perhaps in concert with them—he forced the Picts tosubmit. Tradition locates their defeat near Tullibody,where a stone on Baingle Brae was reputed to mark thebattlefield. Kenneths son Constantin had many troubles. Tullibody Church with the Northmen. In 877 a swarm of them fromIreland penetrated the Firth of Clyde, crossed to the eastcoast, and defeated him at Dollar. He fled, but wasbrought to bay in the Fife parish of Forgan, where hefell with many of his men. In 1559 French troops were on the coast of Fifein the service of the Queen Regent. Their commander, 54 CLACKMANNANSHIRE hearing that the English fleet sent to aid the Lords of theCongregation had arrived in the Forth, decided to retreattowards Stirling. To impede his march, Kirkaldy ofGrange broke down the bridge of Tullibody over theDevon, then swollen by winter floods. The French,however, unroofed the church of Tullibody and repairedthe broken bridge. Much greater disasters to the county attended thepassage of the royalist force of Montrose in 1645. Heburnt Muckart and Dollar and also Castle Campbell,then one of the seats of Montroses bitter enemy, theMarquis of Argyll. Alloa having been plundered byMontroses la
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