| 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; |
| March Burn x5 | Scots march ‘boundary’ |
| Marchburn | Scots march ‘boundary’ |
| 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 | |
| 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 (remains) | |
| Moat Knowe x2 | |
| Moat Moss | |
| 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 |
