Description
St Monans has an ancient history. A village called Inverie existed here as far back as the 800s. In about 875 St Monanus or St Monan was buried at a shrine here and the village was renamed St Monans. Accounts differ about his background. One story says he was a Scottish saint killed here by the Norse. Another says he was an Irish bishop who lived in the 500s,
and that St Monans was founded when his relics were interred here.
Yet another that he was an Irish missionary who came to this part of Fife in 832, before being killed by Danes in 875.
