| 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’ + 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 | Scots corbie ‘raven, rook’ |
| Corsencon, Corsencon Hill | 1. crossing at the cone-shaped hill 2. crossing over the hill end, |
| Coupla, Big Coupla, Little Coupla Couplagate, Couplaligate | Coupla 1. S coup ‘bargaining’ 2. S. coup ‘dump, coal waste’ + S. law, la ‘hill’ Couplaligate 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 ‘rock’ and G. barr ‘height, hill’ and G. ? |
| Craigbank | S. craig ‘rock, possibly rock quarry’ + Place-Name: Bank (also see Bank, St. Bridget’s Bank) |
| Craigbraneoch Hill Craigbraneoch Rig | G. creag braonach ‘rock of the moist place’ +SSE hill ‘hill’ S. rig ‘ridge, a long narrow hill’ |
| Craigdarroch Craigdarroch Rig | G. creag darach ‘rock of the oak’ S. rig ‘a ridge, a long narrow hill’ |
| Craigdullyeart | G. craig ‘rock’ |
| 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 | |
| Craigshiel | |
| Creel Ford | S. creel ‘basket’ + SSE ford ‘crossing over a shallow part of a river’ |
| Creoch Loch | G. crioch ‘boundary + S. loch ‘loch,lake’ |
| Crocradie Burn | |
| Crook (Ruin) | S. oak cruk (construction) |
| Crosshill | |
| PLACE-NAME | SUGGESTED MEANING |
| G. Gaelic, S. Scots, SSE Standard Scottish English |
NEW CUMNOCK HISTORY 