History
The village of Kinglassie lies to the north of the Lochty Burn, 3 miles (5 km) southwest of Glenrothes in Fife and 3 miles southeast of Perth and Kinross district.Kinglassie(Pronounced Kin-glassie) village has been populated for thousands of years,in 830 AD the village was known as Kinglace, the ancient Picts used to live in this area.The village has never been known as Goatmilkshire though the area north east of the village has always had that name or Gaitmilkshire. In the year 1231 the village was known as Kinglassin and was in the Lochoreshire area,however that changed in 1235 when Constantine II of Lochore renounced his claim to the lands in favour of the Abbey of Dunfermline,from this time on Kinglassie ceased to be part of Lochoreshire., but little of antiquity remains, except for the Dogton Stone with its Celtic Cross situated in a field a mile (1.5 km) to the south. For many years, Kinglassie was a weaving village but in the 19th and 20th centuries it developed as a mining town.
From a very early period through to the Reformation, Scotland was dotted over with certain divisions of lands known as "Schyres." Thus, in the immediate neighbourhood of Kinross were Kynros-Schyre, Portmocke-Schyre, Kinglassy-Schyre, Muchard-Schyre and Doloure-Schyre. These Schyres must not be confounded with the shire of the present day; they were simply divisions of land, similar in extent to an average modern parish.
It has a primary school, Mitchell Hall (1896), library, and Miners' Welfare Institute (1931). Fife Airport lies a mile (1.5 km) to the north and on a hill overlooking the farm of Redwells stands Blythe's Folly, a 15.6m (52 feet) high tower built in 1812 by an eccentric Leith shipowner. Kinglassie's development during the late 19th and early 20th Century was marked by its rapid expansion to house mine workers. Many mine workers perished and were injured during the life of the mine—the mine was plagued by water flooding problems. The Kinglassie Pit started in 1908 and closed in 1967. The Westfield open cast coal mine lies to the west of the village and is still regarded as the biggest man-made hole in Europe by local people.
Glastian of Kinglassie B (AC) (also known as Glastian of MacGlastian) was born in County Fife, Scotland. He died at Kinglassie (Kinglace), Scotland, in 830. As bishop of Fife, Saint Glastian mediated in the bloody civil war between the Picts and the Scots. When the Picts were subjugated, Glastian did much to alleviate their lot. He is the patron saint of Kinglassie in Fife, and is venerated in Kyntire (Benedictines, Husenbeth).
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