CULROSS (locally pronounced Coo-rus), a royal burgh and parish, Fifeshire, Scotland, 64 m. W. by South of Dunfermline. There is a station on the L.N.E.R. from Dunfermline to Kin cardine, and another 24 miles away on the line from Dunfermline to Stirling. Pop. 495. It is attractively situated on a hillside sloping gently to the Forth. Here St. Serf founded a church and cemetery, and here he died and was buried. For cen turies the townsfolk used to celebrate his day (July I) by walking in procession bearing green boughs. Kentigern, the apostle to Cumbria and first bishop of Glasgow is said to have been born at Culross and to have been adopted by St. Serf as his son. These religious associations, coupled with the fertility of the soil, led to the founding of a Cistercian abbey in 1217. Of this structure the only remains are the western tower and the choir, which now forms the parish church. It is supposed that a chapel of which some traces exist in the east end of the town was dedicated to Kentigern. James VI. made Culross a royal burgh in 1588. In 1808 there was discovered in the abbey church, embalmed in a silver casket, still preserved there, bearing his name and arms, the heart of Edward, Lord Bruce of Kinloss, killed in 1613 near Bergen-op-Zoom in a duel with Sir Edward Sackville, afterwards earl of Dorset. Robert Pont (1524-1606), the Reformer, was born at Shirresmiln, or Shiresmill, a hamlet in Culross parish. Nearly all its old industries—the coal mines, salt works, linen manufacture, and the making of iron girdles—have disappeared, but its pleasant climate and picturesqueness make it a holiday resort. Dunimarle Castle, on the seashore, adjoins the site of the castle, where, according to tradition, Macbeth slew the wife and children of Macduff. .