PLACE-NAME | SUGGESTED MEANING |
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Bank | Formerly St. Brigit’s Bank |
Barbeys Hill | G. bar beith ‘birch hill’ |
Barney Hill | G. bearna ‘pass’ |
Barscalloch Burn | |
Bedminnie Hill, Moss | |
Benty Cowan Hill | G. beinn tigh gobha ‘hill of the house of the smith’ |
Beoch, Beoch Lane | G. beitheach ‘a place of birches , birchwood’ S. lane ‘slow moving stream’ |
Berry Hill | |
Berrywood Burn | |
Birk Burn | S. birk ‘birch’ |
Birny Brae | |
Bitch Burn | |
Black Bog Castle (Site of) | A name from Blind Hary’s ‘The Wallace’ applied to the site of Cumnock Castle |
Black Clints | S. clint ‘ crag, rock, stony’ |
Blackcraig | ‘black rock’ |
Black Hill , Moss, Water | |
Black Loch | |
Blackdams Burn | |
Blackfarding | black + S. farding ‘farthing-land’ |
Blacklorg Hill | G. learg ‘sloping face of a hill’ |
Blackstone Hill | |
Blackwood | |
Blarene Hill | G. blar eoin ‘plain of the birds’ |
Blood Burn, Moss | |
Blowearie | S. ‘weary of the wind’ |
Blubber Well | S. blubber ‘bubbles’ |
Blueboots Burn, Moss | |
Boig, Bogecorroch,Boigcurroch | G. bog, buig ‘marshy, fen, swampy, ground’ G. corrach ‘uneven, shaky’ |
Boltcraig Hill, Bolt Craig, Bolt Burn, ‘The Bout’ | S. bowt ‘curve’ |
Bottom Burn | |
Bow Burn | |
Bows Cottages | |
Braehead | S. bra, brae ‘bank with a steep slope’ S. head ‘top’ |
Brans Knowe | |
Broad Hag Burn | S. hag ‘soft marshy hollow piece of ground in a moor’ |
Brockloch | G. broclaich‘ badger’s den‘ |
Broken Moss | |
Broom Knowe | |
Buchanny Cairn (Site of) | G. both chanain ‘house of the canon?’ S. cairn ‘burial cairn’ |
Brydsbank, Saint (Blaeu 1654) | Dedication to St. Bridget |
Bryds Burn (Blaeu 1654) | Dedication to St.Bridget? |
Bught Knowe | S. bught ‘sheep pen’ |
Bullet Burn | G. builgeadh ‘bubbling’? |
Bull’s Burn | |
Burnfoot | S. burn ‘stream’ + S. foot ‘bottom, foot’ farm at foot of Blarene Burn Burnfoot mining community |
Burnfoot | S. burn ‘stream’ + S. foot ‘bottom, foot’ cottage at foot of Carcow Burn (now known as The Kennels) |
Burnside | S. burn ‘stream’ + S. side cottage at side of Blarene Burn Burnside mining community |
Burnston | |
Burnston Bog | |
Burnt Hill, Knowe, Moss | |
Burnton | S. burn-toun ‘ferme-toune at the burn’ |
PLACE-NAME | SUGGESTED MEANING |