Dysart

Dysart, an old-fashioned seaport of Fife, on the Firth of Forth, $2\backslash frac\{1\}\{2\}$ miles N.E. of Kirkcaldy, much of whose extended municipal burgh lies within Dysart's parliamentary boundary. It owes its name (Lat. desertum, 'a solitude') to St Serf's cave near Dysart House, Lord Rosslyn's seat; was a thriving place prior to the Union; and now has some textile manufactures. James V. made it a royal burgh, and with Kirkcaldy, Burntisland, and Kinghorn it returns one member to parliament. Pop. of royal burgh (1851) 1610; (1891) 3022; of parliamentary, 12,845.