Laglass Hill

Place-name:Laglass Hill
Suggested Meaning:hill at the green/grey hollow‘
1st element:Gaelic lag ‘hollow;
2nd element:Gaelic glas ‘grey, green’
Blaeu Coila (1654):No Entry
OS Name Books (1855-57):No Entry found
Location:Ordnance Survey (1894)

Dingle Brae

Blackcraig Farm (Robert Guthrie 2007)

Unfortunately there does not appear to be an entry for Laglass Hill in the Ordnance Survey Name Book (1855-57).

Map 1: Dingle Brae (OS Map 1857) : Reproduced with the Permission of the National Library of Scotland

Laglass Hill

Gaelic lag ‘hollow, crevice’ Gaelic glas ‘grey, green’

Michael Ansell identified Laglass Hill as Gaelic An Lag Glas ‘the green/grey hollow’ and considered it ‘may have orginally referred to the boggy area of Star Bog‘, to the south-east of the hill [1,2, 3].

However, to the west of Laglass Hill is Dingle Brae which takes its name from dingle ‘hollow and brae ‘brow of the hill’ [4] . The hollow in question lies between Dingle Brae and Berry Hill which fits well with another of Dwelly’s offerings Gaelic lag ‘hollow between to knolls’ [3].

Laglass Hill sits at the top of this hollow , i.e. ‘hill at the green/grey hollow’.

Map 2 site of dingle ‘hollow’ (OS Map 1895) | Reproduced with the Permission of the National Library of Scotland

See the link to Map 3 below for the Background Map LIDAR (Light Detection and Ranging).

Dingle Brae |Robert Guthrie (2022)

1.Dingle Brae 2. Berry Hill 3. Laglass Hill 4. Blackcraig Hill 5. Ern Cleuch 6. Lochbrowan Hill

 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

References
[1] Michael Ansell, New Cumnock News, Spring 2021 , Issue 8
[2] Edward Dwelly, Illustrated Gaelic -English Dictionary (1902-12, Birlinn Edition 2001)| lag
[3] Edward Dwelly, Illustrated Gaelic -English Dictionary (1902-12, Birlinn Edition 2001)| glas
[4] New Cumnock Place-Name | Dingle Brae

Maps
Reproduced with the Permission of National Library of Scotland
https://maps.nls.uk/
Map 1: Ordnance Survey Maps – Six-inch 1st edition, Scotland, 1843-1882 (1857) | Laglass Hill
Map 2: Ordnance Survey, One-inch to the mile maps of Scotland, 2nd Edition – 1885-1900 (1895) | ‘hollow/dingle’
Map 3: Ordnance Survey Maps – Six-inch 2nd and later editions, Scotland, 1892-1960 (1894) |Dingle (Lidar)
Ordnance Survey Name Books
By Permission of Scotland’s Places
scotlandsplaces.gov.uk
 Ayrshire OS Name Books (1855-57) Vol. 49| No Entry?