Kinnesswood
| Kinnesswood Scots: Kinaskit | |
| Kinross-shire | |
|---|---|
 Kinnesswood Main Street | |
| Location | |
| Grid reference: | NO176028 |
| Location: | 56°12’38"N, 3°19’48"W |
| Data | |
| Post town: | Kinross |
| Postcode: | KY13 |
| Dialling code: | 01592 |
| Local Government | |
| Council: | Perth and Kinross |
| Parliamentary constituency: |
Ochil and South Perthshire |
Kinnesswood is a village in the parish of Portmoak, Kinross-shire. It lies to the east of Loch Leven, on the A911 road, below Bishop Hill in the Lomond Hills. It is approximately four miles east of the county town Kinross and four miles west of Glenrothes in Fife.[1] The name is possibly from the Gaelic Ceann eas ciad meaning "head of the waterfall of the wood".
It was the birthplace in 1746 of the poet Michael Bruce who was born into a weaver's family and is remembered for his nature poetry in poems such as 'Ode To The Cuckoo' which Edmund Burke described as "the most beautiful lyric in our language".[2] Bruce died from consumption at the early age of 21.
References
- ↑ "Perth & Alloa", Ordnance Survey Landranger Map, 2007, ISBN 0-319-22997-1
- ↑ Michael Bruce of Kinross-shire (Poet of Loch Leven; Poet of Lomond Braes; The Shepherd Poet) Alternative Perthshire[1]
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