COUPAR, or CUPAR, of ANGUS, a town of Scotland, in the valley of Strathmore, and though designated in Angus, by far the greater part is situated in the county of Perth. The town is placed on the Isla, and is divided by a rivulet into two parts; that part which lies south of this rivulet being all that belongs to the county of Angus. The streets are well paved and lighted, and the town has much improved of late years; there is a town-house and steeple on the spot where the prison of the court of regality stood. The linen manufacture is carried on to a considerable extent, nearly 200,000 yards of different kinds of cloth being annually stamped here. The number of inhabitants in 1811 was 2590 in the town and parish. It is distant about 12 miles from Perth, and nearly the same distance from Dundee. The parish of Cupar extends about 5 miles in length from south-west to north-east, and is from 1 to 2 miles in breadth; it is divided lengthways by an elevated ridge: a considerable extent of haugh ground lies on the banks of the Isla,
which is frequently swelled by the rains, and lays nearly 600 acres under water. There are still visible at Cupar, the vestiges of a Roman camp, said to have been formed by the army of Agricola in his 7th expedition. On the centre of this camp, Malcolm IV. in 1104, founded and richly endowed an abbey for Cistercian monks; from what remains, it must have been a house of considerable magnitude.