Crail (listen); Cathair Aile) is a former royal burgh in the East Neuk of Fife, Scotland. ==History== Crail probably dates from at least as far back as the Pictish period, as the place-name includes the Pictish/Brythonic element caer, `fort`, and there is a Dark Age cross-slab preserved in the parish kirk, itself dedicated to the early holy man ..... Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crail