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((Short description|Village and parish in Fife, Scotland))
((more citations needed|date=October 2011))
[[File:Kilconquhar - geograph.org.uk - 275856.jpg|thumb|246x246px|Sign to the village.]]
'''Kilconquhar''' (((IPAc-en|audio=kilconquhar (local).ogg|k|ᵻ|ˈ|n|j|ʌ|x|ər)) ((respell|ki|NYUKH|ər)) or ((IPAc-en|audio=kilconquhar (2).ogg|k|ɪ|l|ˈ|k|ɒ|ŋ|k|ər)); ((lang-sco|also Kinneuchar)), from the ((lang-gd|Cill Dhúnchadha)) or ((lang-gd|Cill Chonchaidh)), Church of (St) Duncan or Conchad)<ref>((cite book|last=Taylor|first=Simon|title=The Place-Names of Fife, Vol. III|year=2009|publisher=Shaun Tyas|location=Donington, Lincolnshire|isbn=978-1-900289-97-9|pages=303–6|author2=Gilbert Márkus ))</ref><ref>((cite web|url=https://fife-placenames.glasgow.ac.uk/placename/?id=2048|title=Fife Place-name Data :: Kilconquhar|website=fife-placenames.glasgow.ac.uk))</ref> is a village and [[parish]] in [[Fife]] in [[Scotland]]. It includes the small hamlet of Barnyards.<ref name="GfS">((cite web|url=http://www.scottish-places.info/towns/townfirst41.html|title=Kilconquhar, Fife|work=Gazetteer for Scotland|accessdate=22 December 2014))</ref> It is bounded by the parishes of [[Elie]], [[Ceres, Fife|Ceres]], [[Cameron, Fife|Cameron]], [[St Monans]], [[Carnbee Parish, Scotland|Carnbee]], [[Newburn Parish, Fife|Newburn]] and [[Largo, Fife|Largo]].<ref name=groome>Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland, by Francis Groome, 2nd edition 1896; article on Kilconquhar</ref>
It is approximately 9 miles from north to south. Much of the land is [[agriculture|agricultural]] or wooded. The village itself is situated inland, north of [[Kilconquhar Loch]]. Also in the civil parish are [[Colinsburgh]] and [[Largoward]],<ref name=topog>((cite book|title=The Topographical, Statistical, and Historical Gazetteer of Scotland|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=m6XVAAAAMAAJ&q=Kilconquhar+weaving&pg=PA105|volume=II|year=1856|publisher=Fullarton|page=105))</ref> the latter since 1860 being a separate ecclesiastical parish.<ref name=largoward_church>((cite web|url=http://largowardchurch.org.uk/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=2&Itemid=111|title=About Us|website=largowardchurch.org.uk))</ref>

The coastal village and royal burgh of [[Earlsferry]] was formerly in the parish, but in 1891 the burgh and that part of the parish south of the (now disused) [[Fife Coast Railway]] line and Cocklemill Burn was transferred to the parish of Elie.<ref name=groome2>Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland, by Francis Groome, 2nd edition 1896; article on Earlsferry</ref>

==History==
Kilconquhar Castle was formerly owned by the Adams of Kilconquhar. [[Adam of Kilconquhar]] married [[Marjorie, Countess of Carrick]] to become the [[Earl of Carrick]]. Adam went to the [[Crusades]] with [[Edward I of England|Prince Edward of England]] and died in [[Acre, Israel|Acre]]. His widow subsequently married [[Robert de Brus, 6th Lord of Annandale]], who thus became Earl of Carrick and Lord of Kilconquhar. Their son was [[Robert the Bruce]].<ref name="Hidden Gem">Kilconquhar: A Hidden Gem by Jean Lindesay-Bethune 2011</ref><ref>((cite web|url=https://archive.org/details/castellateddomes05macguoft|title=The castellated and domestic architecture of Scotland from the twelfth to the eighteenth century|first1=David|last1=MacGibbon|first2=Thomas|last2=Ross|date=4 June 1887|publisher=Edinburgh : D. Douglas|via=Internet Archive))</ref>

There was another castle in the parish called Rires or Reres, belonging to the Forbes family. [[Margaret Beaton]], Lady Reres, was a companion of [[Mary, Queen of Scots]], and her husband Arthur Forbes was involved in the assassination of [[John Wood (Scottish courtier)|John Wood]].<ref>Pitcairn, ''Ancient Criminal Trials'', vol. 1 (Edinburgh, 1833), p. 40.</ref> The ruins of the castle were demolished and cleared away in the 19th century.

In the 18th century the village was noted as a weaving centre. This industry employed 235 persons in 1856<ref name=topog/> but faded in the late 19th century. The population was at a high in 1836 of 558 but dropped to 350 in 1881. By 2011 it had fallen to just over 200.

==Parish Church==

''Kil'' in the name implies an early Christian origin for the church, but no early remains or carved stones of the period have been identified.((citation needed|date=June 2019)) The situation of the medieval parish church, on a mound near a loch, is a typical one for early sites.((citation needed|date=June 2019))

Kilconquhar Parish Church is within the [[Church of Scotland]]. The historic [[church (building)|church building]] is still in regular use; it is an exact, but larger scale, copy, of [[Cockpen and Carrington Parish Church]] in [[Midlothian]]<ref name="Scots Magazine">((cite journal|last=Mitchell|first=Robin I.|title=A Bell Called The Countess|journal=The Scots Magazine|date=January 1965|pages=365))</ref> has an unusually tall tower for such a small parish.

Mention of Saint Conquhar, a Scottish Saint, is found only in the 15th-century [[Perth, Scotland|Perth]] Psalter. His saint's day is noted as May 3.<ref>((cite web|url=https://www.eastneuktrinity.org.uk/history/churches/history-kilconquhar-church|title=History of Kilconquhar Church|last=admin|date=14 July 2009|website=www.eastneuktrinity.org.uk))</ref>

The new church was planned in 1818 and designed by [[R & R Dickson]] in 1819, based on [[Cockpen and Carrington Parish Church|Cockpen Church]] which they had overseen the construction of, following the death of its designer, their employer [[Richard Crichton]].<ref>Dictionary of Scottish Architects: Dickson</ref> The church opened in 1821. It contains several fine [[stained glass window]]s including "The Acts of Charity" by Ward and Hughes installed in 1867 and four biblical warriors installed in the 1920s by Mrs Andrew Grant in memory of her four nephews lost in [[World War I]].<ref name="Hidden Gem"/>

The church bell was donated by Robert, son of the Countess Dowager of Crawford, in the mid 19th century, but is an 18th-century bell, formerly in [[Greenwich Hospital (London)|Greenwich Hospital]].<ref name="Hidden Gem"/><ref name="Scots Magazine"/>

The remains of Old Kilconquhar Church lie in the churchyard. This was originally called [[Culdee]] Church and is first mentioned in 1177. In 1200 Duncan, Earl of Fife bestowed revenues from this church to the [[Cistercian]] nunnery in [[North Berwick]]. The church was consecrated in 1243 by [[David de Bernham|Bishop de Bernham]]. In 1499 Patrick Dunbar, Laird of Kilconquhar, set up an altar to "Our Lady of Pitie (Pity)".

==Other notable buildings==
The local pub is the Kinneuchar Inn. It dates from the 18th century.<ref name="GfS"/>

Lochside Farm, Allan Cottage and Woodlands all date from the mid 18th century.

==Notable residents==
*[[James Drummond (chaplain)|James Drummond]] was minister for 1681 to 1699.<ref>((cite book |last1=Dick |first1=Robert |title=Annals of Colinsburgh: With Notes on Church Life in Kilconquhar Parish |date=1896 |publisher=Andrew Elliot |location=Edinburgh |pages=123–126 |url=https://archive.org/details/annalscolinsbur00dickgoog/page/n130 |accessdate=5 March 2019))</ref>
*Rev [[William Milligan]] was minister of the parish from 1850 to 1860 and his son [[George Milligan (moderator)|George Milligan]] was born here in 1860.
*Rear Admiral [[William Duddingston]] was born at St Ford on the southern edge of the parish.

== Kilconquhar gallery ==
<gallery>
File:Kilconquhar, Fife - geograph.org.uk - 321789.jpg|Kilconquhar village, church and war memorial
File:Medieval Arcade at Kilconquhar Church - geograph.org.uk - 296710.jpg|Kilconquhar old church ruins
File:Kilconquhar Kirk 452587.jpg|Kilconquhar Parish Church
File:Kilconquhar Church - geograph.org.uk - 324657.jpg|Kilconquhar old church ruin, and new church
File:Kilconquhar Church East Window - geograph.org.uk - 324666.jpg|Kilconquhar Church east window
File:Kilconquhar Inn - geograph.org.uk - 54082.jpg|Kilconquhar Inn
File:Kilconquhar Loch and Church - geograph.org.uk - 163931.jpg|Kilconquhar Loch and Church
File:Kilconquhar Castle - geograph.org.uk - 1142912.jpg|Kilconquhar Castle
</gallery>

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