Place-Names: M

PLACE-NAME	SUGGESTED MEANING
Macnaught, Macnaught Hill (Maneight)
Magsbus Bog
Mahago Rig	Personal Name: St. Mahagu + Scots rig ‘ridge’
Maneight
Mansfield Mansfield House Mansfield Mains Hall of Mansfield Mansfield Cottages Mansfield Village Mansfield Colliery Mansfield Burn Mansfield Linn	Personal Surname: Mansfield Place-name: Mansfield +SSE house ‘house’ Place-name: Mansfield +S. mains ‘The home farm of an estate’ S. ha, haw ‘main dwelling of a farm’ + Place-name: Mansfield Place-name: Mansfield + SSE cottages ‘cottages’ Place-name: Mansfield + SSE village ‘village’ Place-name: Mansfield + SSE colliery ‘colliery’ Place-name: Mansfield + S. burn ‘stream’ Place-name: Mansfield + S. linn ‘waterfall’
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’ + S.S.E. foot ‘foot, bottom’
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’ Grave (Wilson; Jamieson & Humphrey)	Grave of three Covenanters killed on Carsgailloch hill
Martyrs’ Monument (Corson & Hair)	Memorial to two covenanters killed near Over Cairn (but on Westland land)
Martyrs’ Moss	A hollow in the moss, where tradition suggests Covenanters were martyred here
McCool’s Craig	Personal name: Finn McCool + S. craig ‘crag, rock;
McCowan’s Knowe	Personal Name: McCowan + S. knowe ‘hillock’
McLure’s Mill	Personal Name: McLure + S.S.E. mill ‘mill’
Meeting House	Reformed Presbyterian meeting place
Meikle Creoch	S. meikle ‘big’ + G. crioch ‘boundary’ (cf. Little Creoch)
Meikle Garclaugh	S. meikle ‘big’ + Place-Name: Garclaugh
Meikle Hill x2	S. meikle big + SSE hill ‘hill’
Meikle Westland	S. meikle ‘big’ + SSE hill ‘hill’
Meikledodd Hill	S. meikle ‘big’ + S. dodd ‘bare, rounded hill’ + SSE hill ‘hill’
Merkland	S. merk land‘ unit of land measure’
Merry Clints	Old Scots clint ‘crag, cliff, rock’
Mid Burn x2
Mid Hill, Midhill Stell	SSE mid ‘middle’ SSE hill ‘hill, eminence’ Place-Name: Mid Hill (in form Midhill) + S. stell ‘sheep enclosure’
Mid Lowes	SSE mid ‘midde’ + Place-Name: Lowes
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. monadh chuill ‘hill of the hazel’
Monthraw, Montraw Burn	1. G. monadh ruadh ‘red hill’ 2. G. monadh riabhach ‘brindled hill’ 3. G. monadh h-airbhe ‘boundary hill’ S. burn ‘stream’
Moshoufe (Blaeu)	See Mossback
Mossback	Scots moss ‘marsh, moor’ + S.S.E. back ‘back’
Mounthope	a name borrowed from Closeburn , Dumfriesshire
Muirfoot	S. muir ‘moor’ + S.S.E. foot ‘foot, bottom’
PLACE-NAME	SUGGESTED MEANING