PLACE-NAME | SUGGESTED MEANING |
---|---|
Magsbus Bog | |
Mahago Rig | |
Maneight | |
Mansfield Mansfield House Mansfield Mains Hall of Mansfield Mansfield Cottages Mansfield Village Mansfield Colliery Mansfield Burn Mansfield Linn | Personal Surname: Mansfield Scots mains ‘The home farm of an estate, cultivated for the proprietor’ Scots ha, haw ‘A farm-house, the main dwelling of a farm, a house, esp. on a farm, occupied by the farmer himself’ |
March Burn (1) Ayrshire/Dumfriesshire | Scots march ‘boundary’ Scots burn ‘stream’ |
March Burn (2) Marchburn, Brunton | Scots march ‘boundary’ Scots burn ‘stream’ |
March Burn (3) Pollach, Glen Afton | Scots march ‘boundary’ Scots burn ‘stream’ |
March Burn (4) Bottom Burn, nr. Kello Water | Scots march ‘boundary’ Scots burn ‘stream’ |
Marchburn | Named after Scots march ‘boundary’ Scots burn ‘stream’ |
Marchfoot | Scots march ‘boundary’ |
Marchaleholme | 1. Personal name Marshall + S. holme ‘water-meadow, haugh’ 2. S. marschall ‘farrier’ + S. holme ‘water-meadow, haugh’ |
Marshallmark | 1. Personal name Marshall + S. mark ‘merk-land’ 2. S. marschall ‘farrier’ + S. mark ‘merk-land’ |
Martyrs’ Moss | Covenanter Martyrs Moss |
McCool’s Craig | Personal name: Finn McCool + S. craig ‘crag, rock; |
McCowan’s Knowe | |
McLure’s Mill | Personal Name: McLure + mill |
Meeting House | Reformed Presbyterian meeting place |
Meikle | |
Meikle Creoch | Gaelic crioch ‘boundary’ |
Meikle Garclaugh | |
Meikle Hill x2 | |
Meikle Westland | |
Meikledodd Hill | S. meikle ‘big’ dodd ‘bare, rounded hill’ |
Merkland | Scots merk land‘ unit of land measure’ |
Merry Clints | Old Scots clint ‘crag, cliff, rock’ |
Mid Burn x2 | |
Mid Hill | |
Mid Lowes | S. lowes ‘lochs’ |
Midhill Stell | |
Millaneoch Hill | |
Milray Hill | |
Mitchell’s Syke | Personal Name Mitchell + S. sike ‘slow, sluggish stream’ |
Moat (Black Bog Castle) | See Black Bog Castle |
1. Moat Knowe (Lanemark) Moat Knowe (Meikle Creoch) 2. Moat Moss (Meikle Creoch) | 1. S. moat ‘assembly, meeting’ + S. knowe ‘hillock’ S. moat ‘assembly,meeting’ S. moss ‘marsh, bog’ (in sense of moss named after Moat Knowe) |
Momes caple (Blaeu) | ? moss caple ‘Horse moss’ |
Monqhuill | G. moin chuill ‘hill of the hazel’ |
Monthraw | |
Moshoufe (Blaeu) | See Mossback |
Mossback | Scots moss ‘marsh, moor’ |
Mounthope | a name borrowed from Closeburn , Dumfriesshire |
Muirfoot | Scots moor + foot ‘foot of the moor‘ |
PLACE-NAME | SUGGESTED MEANING |