Fife Ness
Fife Ness is a headland forming the most eastern point in Fife, Scotland. Anciently the area was called Muck Ross, which is a corruption of the Scottish Gaelic Muc-Rois meaning "Headland of the Pigs".Photo: Anne Burgess, CC BY-SA 2.0.
- Type: Cape
- Description: headland in Fife, Scotland, UK
- Also known as: “Rubha Fhìobha”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Fife Ness Lighthouse and Crail Golfing Society.
Fife Ness Lighthouse
Lighthouse
Photo: Anne Burgess, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Fife Ness is a headland forming the most eastern point in Fife, Scotland. Anciently the area was called Muck Ross, which is a corruption of the Scottish Gaelic Muc-Rois meaning "Headland of the Pigs".
Crail Golfing Society
Building
The Crail Golfing Society is a Scottish golf club established in February 1786 in the Golf Hotel, Crail, Fife. The society is the seventh oldest golf club in the world.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Crail and Kingsbarns.
Crail
Town
Photo: Kim Traynor, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Crail is a former royal burgh, parish and community council area in the East Neuk of Fife, Scotland. The locality has an estimated population of 1,630.
Kingsbarns
Village
Photo: S.moeller, Public domain.
Kingsbarns is a village and parish in Scotland lies near the eastern coast of Fife, in an area known as the East Neuk, 6.5 miles southeast of St Andrews and 3.6 miles north of Crail.
Kilrenny
Village
Photo: James Allan, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Kilrenny is a village in Fife, Scotland. Part of the East Neuk, it lies immediately to the north of Anstruther on the south Fife coast. The first element of the name is from the Scottish Gaelic cill, meaning 'church'.
Fife Ness
- Categories: headland and landform
- Location: Fife, North East Scotland, Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
56.27899° or 56° 16′ 44″ northLongitude
-2.58548° or 2° 35′ 8″ westElevation
7 feet (2 metres)Open location code
9C8V7CH7+HROpenStreetMap ID
node 12612980704OpenStreetMap feature
natural=cape
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Swedish—“Fife Ness” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Fife Ness”
- Chinese: “法夫岬”
- French: “Fife Ness”
- Irish: “Rubha Fiobha”
- Polish: “Fife Ness”
- Swedish: “Fife Ness”
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