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Kirkcaldy (/ k ɜːr ˈ k ɔː d i / ⓘ kur-KAW-dee; Scots: Kirkcaldy; Scottish Gaelic: Cair Chaladain) is a town and former royal burgh in Fife, on the east coast of Scotland. It is about 11 + 1 ⁄ 2 miles (19 kilometres) north of Edinburgh and 27 + 1 ⁄ 2 mi (44 km) south-southwest of Dundee .
Royal Burgh of Kirkcaldy Map from 1824 displaying the length of "the lang toun" Kirkcaldy (Scottish Gaelic: Cathair Chaladinn) is a former royal burgh and town. Known as one of Scotland's "most ancient burghs", the area surrounding the modern town has a history dating as far back as between 2500 BC and 500 BC as a possible funerary landscape.
The shooting of Nikola Štedul was an attempted assassination in Kirkcaldy, Scotland in 1988. The victim, Nikola Štedul, was a Croatian emigrant from what was then Yugoslavia . He had been the president of the Croatian Statehood Movement, campaigning for Croatian independence from Yugoslavia.
Kirkcaldy Sheriff Court, formerly known as County Buildings, is a judicial building on Whytescauseway in Kirkcaldy in Scotland. The building, which continues to operate a courthouse, is a Category B listed building .
Kirkcaldy in Fife was a royal burgh that returned one commissioner to the Parliament of Scotland and to the Convention of Estates. It was represented in Parliament from at least 1571 until 1707. It was represented in Parliament from at least 1571 until 1707.
Kirkcaldy (district) Kirkcaldy (Parliament of Scotland constituency) Kirkcaldy (Scottish Parliament constituency) Kirkcaldy & Dysart F.C. Kirkcaldy Beer Duties Act 1741; Kirkcaldy Central (ward) Kirkcaldy East (ward) Kirkcaldy F.C. Kirkcaldy North (ward) Kirkcaldy RFC; Kirkcaldy United F.C.
Kirkcaldy (Scottish Gaelic: Dùn Phàrlain, Scots: Dunfaurlin) was a local government district in the Fife region of Scotland from 1975 to 1996. The district was named after the town of Kirkcaldy but also covered a wider area, including the Fife regional capital of Glenrothes .
Kirkcaldy and Dysart is a civil parish on the south coast of Fife, Scotland, lying on the Firth of Forth, containing the towns of Kirkcaldy and Dysart and their hinterland. The civil parish was formed in December 1901 by an amalgamation of the parishes of Kirkcaldy, Dysart and Abbotshall, along with the portion of the parish of Kinghorn which ...