| PLACE-NAME | SUGGESTED MEANING |
|---|---|
| Cairn (site of) polquhirter | |
| Cairn Hill | |
| Cairn Knowe | |
| Cairnhill | |
| Cairnscadden | |
| Cairnscadden Loch | |
| Cameronsike | Personal name Cameron + Scots sike ‘sluggish stream’ |
| Cannock Hill | |
| Carcow | G. car ‘rock’ calltuin ‘hazel’ |
| Carnivan Hill | |
| Carsgailoch Hill | G. cailleach ‘hag, veiled one’ |
| Castle (site of) | See Waterhead Castle |
| Castle Hill | hill associated with Waterhead Castle |
| Castlemains | Mains associated with Cumnock Castle |
| Castle William | rock resembling a castle, fortification + Personal name: William for Sir William Wallce |
| Catlock Burn | |
| Chang Hill | G. teanga ‘tongue, tongue-shaped land’ |
| Clashywarrant Burn | |
| Clocklowie | |
| Clints | Old Scots clint ‘a crag, cliff, rock’ |
| Cloven Stone | |
| Coalburn | |
| Coalcreoch | G. cul crioch ‘back boundary’ |
| Cold Well | |
| Connel Burn | Personal Name ? St. Connel |
| Corbie Craig, Knowes | Scots corbie ‘raven, rook’ |
| Corsencon | |
| Coupla | |
| Couplagate, Couplalegate | |
| Court Knowe | a small hill where a court was held |
| Crae Moss | G. crathaidh ‘quaking bog’ S. moss ‘bog, marsh’ |
| CRAIG- | |
| Craig of Bahoun | 1. Local tradition named after Sir Henry de Bohun, English knight 2. Scots craig ‘rock’ and Gaelic barr ‘height, hill’ and Gaelic ? |
| Craigbank | See Bank, St. Bridget’s Bank |
| Craigbraneoch Hill and Rig | G. creag braonach ‘rock of the moist place’ |
| Craigdarroch and Craigdarroch Rig | G. creag darach ‘rock of the oak’ |
| Craigdullyeart | |
| Craigenrig Hag | G. creagan ‘rocky place’ S. rig ‘long narrow hill’ S. hag ‘marshy hollow piece of ground in a moor’ |
| Craighouse | |
| Craigie Burn | |
| Craigman | |
| Craigshiel | |
| Creel Ford | |
| Creoch Loch | G. crioch ‘boundary |
| Crocradie Burn | |
| Crook (Ruin) | S. oak cruk (construction) |
| Crosshill | |
| PLACE-NAME | SUGGESTED MEANING |
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