BORELAND, a village, in the parish of Dysart,
district of Kirkcaldy, county of Fife, ^ a mile (N. by
E.) from Dysart; containing 193 inhabitants. This
place, which is situated about half a mile south-east of
the village of Gallaton, was built about the middle of
the last century, and is chiefly inhabited by persons
employed in the collieries in the neighbourhood, which
were formerly carried on to a much greater extent than
they are at present. Since the limitation of those works,
within the last twenty or thirty years, the population of
the village has diminished from more than 300 to its
present number. A school has been endowed, the master
of which has a salary, a schoolroom and dwellinghouse
rent-free, and a supply of coal.