Logie, a village and a parish of NE Fife. The village stands 3 miles NNW of Dairsie station, and 5 NNE of its post-town, Cupar.

The parish, containing also the village of Lucklawhill Feus, was anciently called Logie-Murdoch. It is bounded N by Forgan, E by Leuchars, S by Dairsie, and W and NW by Kilmany. Its utmost length, from NE to SW, is 4⁵/8 miles; its breadth varies between ¾ mile and 2¼ miles; and its area is 3599¼ acres. Motray Water traces the northern boundary, Moonzie Burn traces the southern; and the surface, sinking along these two streams to 85 and 180 feet above sea-level, between them rises in several parallel ridges to 335 feet at Crumblie Hill, 626 at Lucklaw or Inchlaw Hill, and 571 at Forret Hill. The predominant rocks are eruptive; and the soil on the slopes of the hills is mostly a good fertile loam, on their shoulders and summits is thin and moorish. Nearly five-sixths of the entire area are in tillage; 290 acres are under wood; and the rest of the land is pastoral or waste. The estate of Logie, on the S side of the parish, belonged in the time of Robert III. to Sir John Wemyss, ancestor of the Earls of Wemyss, and passed in the reign of James VI. to a younger branch of the Wemyss family. An incident in the life of one of its proprietors forms the theme of a ballad called the Laird of Logie, and published by Sir Walter Scott in his Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border. Cruivie Castle, the chief antiquity, has been separately noticed. John West, author of a System of Mathematics, was the son of a minister of the parish, who lived about the middle of last century. Logie is in the presbytery of Cupar and synod of Fife; the living is worth £252. The parish church (1826) was restored in 1882, and contains 280 sittings. There is also a Free church; and a public douce bein body, ' who followed his calling in a humble thatched cottage at North Water Brig; and John Stuart Mill about 1864 paid a visit to his father's birthplace. In the ruined ` Auld Kirk of Pert ' close by, George Beattie makes John o' Arnha' see ` unco sights.' Nearly a mile to the W of Craigo House are three remarkable tumuli, the Laws of Craigo, two of which, being opened, were found to contain five human skeletons of extraordinary size. Mansions, noticed separately, are Craigo and Gallery; and the property is divided among three. Logie-Pert is in the presbytery of Brechin and the synod of Angus and Mearns; the living is worth £293. The old church of Logie, like that of Pert, still stands in ruins by the North Esk's bank. The present parish church was built in 1840, and contains 700 sittings. There is also a Free church; and two public schools, Craigo Works and Logie-Pert, with respective accommodation for 158 and 96 children, had (1882) an average attendance of 69 and 61, and grants of £48, 4s. and £51, 19s. Valuation (1857) £6292, (1884) £8353, 3s., plus £1517 for railway. Pop. (1801) 908, (1841) 1560, (1861) 1483, (1871) 1251, (1881) 995.—Ord. Sur., sh. 57, 1868.

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