Kingennie, a station in Monifieth parish, Forfarshire, on the Dundee and Forfar Direct section of the Caledonian railway, 7 miles NE of Dundee. Kingennie estate, around the station, has a trap-rock quarry; and Kingennie chapelry, comprising the estate, belonged to Arbroath Abbey. Its church, having passed to a state of ruin, was erased about 1830.—Ord. Sur., sh. 49, 1865.

(F.H. Groome, Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland (1882-4); © 2004 Gazetteer for Scotland)