SCOTLAND: The Fife Coast 1 – Pittenweem

[ Photo Gallery # 96 ]

Far from the exotic and highly publicised regions of the Western Mediterranean which I have featured in my recent blogs, my Gallery today consists of photographs taken by me in 2007 in the small coastal fishing village of PITTENWEEM. An unusual name, derived, according to Wikipedia, from the Pictish and Scottish Gaelic languages. [ “Pit-” represents Pictish ‘pett ‘place, portion of land’, and “-enweem” is Gaelic ‘na h-Uaimh’, ‘of the Caves’, so “The Place of the Caves”. ]

Pittenweem is a fishing village in Fife, on the east coast of Scotland. At the 2001 census, it had a population of 1,747.

The cave in question is almost certainly St.Fillan’s cave, (see the photograph below), although there are many indentations along the rocky shores that could have influenced the name.