A topographical dictionary of Scotland, comprising the several counties, islands, cities, burgh and market towns, parishes, and principal villages, with historical and statistical descriptions: embellished with engravings of the seals and arms of the different burghs and universities . m ; patron, the Crown. Inverkeillorchurch, erected in 1735, and enlarged by the additionof an aisle in 1799, is a plain structure containing 700sittings. There is a place of worship for members of the I N V E I N VE Free Church. The parochial schoolmaster has a salaryof £34 a year, with a house and garden; he re
A topographical dictionary of Scotland, comprising the several counties, islands, cities, burgh and market towns, parishes, and principal villages, with historical and statistical descriptions: embellished with engravings of the seals and arms of the different burghs and universities . m ; patron, the Crown. Inverkeillorchurch, erected in 1735, and enlarged by the additionof an aisle in 1799, is a plain structure containing 700sittings. There is a place of worship for members of the I N V E I N VE Free Church. The parochial schoolmaster has a salaryof £34 a year, with a house and garden; he receives £10from a bequest, for the gratuitous instruction of twelvepoor children, and the fees average about £15 per is also a school at Chapelton, the master of whichhas a free house and garden, and a salary of £7 arisingfrom a bequest, in addition to the fees. The bequestfrom which the two payments to the schools are made,amounts to £1000, under the management of the KirkSession, who appropriate the remainder of the proceedsto the poor not upon the parish roll. Near the sea arethe remains of St. Murdochs chapel, with the burying-ground attached to it; and at Chapelton are the remainsof the chapel of Quytefield, the burial-place of the familyof Boysack. ^^§4%L. Reverse. Seal and Arms. INVERKEITHING, a parish, sea-port, burgh, andmarket-town, in the district of Dunfermline, countyof Fife, 12i miles (N. W. by W.) from Edinburgh;containing, with the village of Hillend, 2530 inhabitants,of whom 1674 are in the burgh. This place is supposedto have derived its name from its position at the influxof the river Keithing into the Firth of Forth, and theparish at present includes the ancient parish of Rosyth,so called, in the Gaelic language, from its peninsularsituation. Inverkeithing appears to be of considerableantiquity; and the adjacent ferry was, on her flightfrom England, the landing-place of Margaret, who after-wards became the queen of Malcolm III. Several battl
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