Place-Names: C

PLACE-NAME	SUGGESTED MEANING
Cairn (site of) polquhirter
Cairn hill
Cairn Hill Cairnhill	S. or SSE. cairn ‘pile of stones’ + SSE hill ‘hill’ Place-name: Cairnhill (named after the hill)
Cairn Knowe
Cairnscadden
Cairnscadden Loch
Cameronsike	Personal name Cameron + Scots sike ‘sluggish stream’
Cannock Hill	G. ceann ‘head’ + G. cnoc ‘hill’ Place-name Cannock + SSE hill ‘hill’
Carcow	G. car ‘rock’ calltuin ‘hazel’
Carnivan Hill
Carsgailoch Hill	G. cailleach ‘hag, veiled one’ + SSE hill ‘hill’
Castle (site of)	See Waterhead Castle
Castle Green	Place-Name: Castle village +SSE green ‘public green’
Castle Hill	hill associated with Waterhead Castle
Castlemains	Mains associated with Cumnock Castle (previously Cumnock-Maynes, Maynes of Cumnock)
Castle William	rock resembling a castle, fortification + Personal name: William for Sir William Wallce
Castle, Castle Inn	Place-name: Castle form Cumnock Castle, but alos appears to the alternative name of Little Mains of Cumnock
Catlock Burn
Chang Hill  Littlechang Hill Littlechang Burn High Chang Hill	G. teanga ‘tongue, tongue-shaped land’ + SSE hill ‘hill’ SSE little ‘little’ + Place-Name: Chang + SSE hill ‘hill’ Place-Name: Littlechang + S. burn ‘stream’ SSE high ‘high’ + Place-Name: Chang + SSE hill ‘hill’
Clashywarrant Burn	G. clais ‘ditch’ G. chaorainn ‘rowan’ S. burn ‘stream’
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 S. burn ‘stream’
Corbie Craig, Knowes	S. corbie ‘raven, rook’
Corsencon, Corsencon Hill	1. G. cross na con ‘hound’s crossing’ 2.1 S. cross, corse ‘crossing place’ + S. con ‘cone-shaped hill’ 2.2 S cross, corse ‘crossing place’ + S. con ‘hill end’ Place-Name: Corsencon + SSE hill ‘hill’
Coupla Big Coupla Little Coupla Couplagate	S. coup 1. ‘dump’ 2. ‘height for emptying coal into carts’, coal waste’ 3. ‘a break in coal strata’ 4. ‘exchange, barter’ + S law, la ‘hill’ SSE big ‘big, larger’ + Place-Name: Coupla SSE little ‘little, smaller’ + Place-Name: Coupla Place-Name: Coupla + S. ligate ‘self-closing gate’
Court Knowe	SSE court ‘court of justice’ + S. knowe ‘hillock’
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. S. craig ‘crag, rock’ and G. barr ‘height, hill’ and G. ?
Craigbank	S. craig ‘crag, rock, possibly rock quarry’ + Place-Name: Bank (also see Bank, St. Bridget’s Bank)
Craigbraneoch Hill Craigbraneoch Rig	G. creag braonach ‘crag, rock of the moist place’ +SSE hill ‘hill’ S. rig ‘ridge, a long narrow hill’
Craigdarroch Craigdarroch Rig	G. creag darach ‘crag, rock of the oak’ Place-Name Craigdarroh +S. rig ‘a ridge, a long narrow hill’
Craigdullyeart, Craigdullyeart Hill, Craigdullyeart Limeworks	1. S craig ‘crag, rock’ + S. dullyeart ‘of a dirty dull colour’ 1. Gaelic a’tileich/ tulaich-àrd ‘high knoll’ 2. Gaelic dubh ‘black’ + Gaelic d(h)earg ‘red’ 3. Gaelic dubh-liath ‘dark grey’ Gaelic àrd ‘high, lofty’ 4. Gaelic doilleir ‘dim,dull, dark grey’ Place-Name : Craigdullyeart + SSE hill ‘hill’ Pace-Name : Craigdullyeart + SSE limeworks ‘lime works’
Craigenrig Hag	G. creagan ‘rocky place’ S. rig ‘ridge, long narrow hill’ S. hag ‘marshy hollow piece of ground in a moor’
Craighouse	S. craig ‘rock’ + SSE house ‘house’
Craigie Burn
Craigman	S. craig ‘crag rock’
Craigshiel	S. craig ‘crack, rock’ + S. shiel ‘shiel ‘rough shelter for sheep or cattle and their herds’
Creel Ford	S. creel ‘basket’ + SSE ford ‘crossing over a shallow part of a river’
Creoch Creoch Loch Little Creoch Meikle Creoch	G. crioch ‘boundary’ Place-Name: Creoch + S. loch ‘loch SSE little ‘small, smaller’ + Place-Name: Creoch Scots meikle ‘big, larger’ + Place-Name: Creoch
Crocradie Burn
Crook (Ruin)	S. oak cruk (construction)
Crosshill
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Abbreviations: G. Gaelic, S. Scots, SSE Standard Scottish English, W. Welsh