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.
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