| 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 | G. beitheach ‘a place of birches , birchwood’ |
| 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) | One of the names allocated to new castle to replace 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, Boigcurrach | S. boig ‘bog’ and G. currach ‘ |
| Boltcraig Hill, Bolt Craig, Bolt Burn, ‘The Bout’ | S. bowt ‘curve’ |
| Bottom Burn | |
| Bow Burn | |
| Bows Cottages | |
| Braehead | |
| 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 house’? |
| 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. farm at foot of Blarene Burn Burnfoot mining community |
| Burnfoot | S. farm at foot of Carcow Burn (now known as The Kennels) |
| Burnside | S. 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 |
