Place-Names: B

PLACE-NAME	SUGGESTED MEANING
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