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A lake, Kinross-shire, Scotland. Saint Serf's Island, situated here, was the seat of a religious community for 700 years. Given to the Culdees, c.840,it was granted by David I, 1145, to the Canons Regular of Saint Andrews; the surviving Culdees were subject to the canons. At the Dissolution the confiscated property passed to the Earl of Morton.