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Mini Trail Place Names of the Cateran Trail Mini Trail Place Names of the Cateran Trail Dr Peter McNiven Mini Trail PLACE NAMES OF THE CATARAN TRAIL DR PETER MCNIVEN CONTENTS Section 1: Introduction ....................... page 1 Language ........................... page 3 The Caterans ..................... page 4 People ................................ page 5 Places ................................. page 6 Landscapes ....................... page 7 Section 2: Place Name Index ............ page 10 Bibliography ...................... page 35 COVER: Looking up Glen Isla from the Cateran Trail, photo Clare Cooper Cateran Trail Map, courtesy of Perth & Kinross Countryside Trust Mini Trail FOREWARD The Cateran Trail is one of Scotland’s great long-distance footpaths. Fully waymarked, its circular 64-mile (103-km) route through Eastern Perthshire and the Angus Glens follows old drove roads and ancient tracks across a varied terrain of farmland, forests and moors. Some of the routes follow those used by the Caterans, the name given to the Highland cattle raiders who were the scourge of Strathardle, Glenshee and Glen Isla from the Middle Ages to the 17th century, and after whom the trail is named. This booklet is part of a series detailing new research on the place names of the Cateran Trail. Each follows one of its five stages and begins with an introductory essay followed by a place name index. This one for the shorter ‘mini’ Trail. The research was commissioned by Cateran’s Common Wealth, a locally-led initiative which is using the Cateran Trail as a stage for a multi-year programme of diverse arts, cultural and heritage activities and events aimed at inspiring people to think about and celebrate our ‘common wealth’, the things that belong to all of us. Part of the Old Military Road at Lair, photo Clare Cooper Mini Trail of information about such topics as people, the clues to landscape use, but they also indicate INTRODUCTION landscape, how that landscape was used, important religious and social organisation that belief, and of course language. For place- would otherwise have gone unrecorded. Place- Place-names matter. If there are any doubts names are words and once we can understand names are very much an under-utilised about that statement, imagine trying to travel what a place-name means we can begin to use resource for Scottish history, but can be said to anywhere in the world without them; try it to tell us about the past. be one the main resources for the study of booking flight from 55°57'00" N, 003°22'21" W important questions, such as those relating to to 51°28'39" N, 000°27'41" W. How much the Picts. However, one of the problems we simpler is it to say you want to go from face is that Scotland is very limited when it Edinburgh Airport to London Heathrow? For comes to how many counties have had their most of us place-names are merely words, place-names closely scrutinised. Scotland often incomprehensible, on maps or road-signs lacks the intensive surveys of England and indicating where a place is in the world. Some Ireland, particularly the Republic of Ireland. place-names have special resonance for Research in place-name involves looking for people; for example, their home town or village, their earliest spellings. The reasoning is that a place where they spent a special holiday or the earlier the spelling the closer we are to the occasion, or perhaps they just delight in the language spoken when the name was first sound of the name – many Scots like how coined. For example, Pictish is generally ‘Scottish’ places such as Auchtermuchty or thought to have died out by around the year Ecclefechan sound, and can take great delight 900. There are few Pictish place-names along in their mispronunciation by non-Scots A peacock at Dirnanean Gardens, photo Clare Cooper the Cateran Trail, the language having been speakers. replaced by first Gaelic, perhaps around 900 to Place-names, however, meant something to Place-names can be a great aid in helping 1000, and then Scots which probably began to the people who originally coined them. Once historians and archaeologists understand rural make inroads into the area when the monks of we crack the code, as it were, we can discover settlement and society in the Middle Ages and Dunfermline, Scone, and Coupar Angus a great deal about the landscape in which the beyond to the cusp of the Agricultural Abbeys were granted lands in Strathardle and place-name is situated. Place-names are a Improvements and Industrial Revolution in Glenisla from the mid twelfth century. window through which we can glimpse Scotland in the late eighteenth and early Researchers look at various material for early Scotland’s past. They contain a large amount nineteenth centuries. Not only do they give us spellings, including old maps, the earliest 1 Mini Trail detailed of which are Timothy Pont’s maps of place-names; indeed, standardised spelling the records of Coupar Angus Abbey are dating to the 1590s. Other useful maps are only arose in the nineteenth century with the particularly useful for the Glenisla stages of the William Roy’s Military Map (1747-53), James appearance of mass produced newspapers Cateran Trail. However, not all of the church Stobie’s Map of the Counties of Perth and and compulsory education. It is not unusual records will have survived the tribulations of the Clackmannan (1783), and John Aislie’s Map of while looking at medieval documents for the Protestant Reformation of the mid sixteenth the County of Forfar or Shire of Angus (1794). place-name researcher to find two or more century. Royal records, such as charters, can While these maps are very useful, they are not different spellings for the same place in the one sometimes be dated back to the reign of as accurately drawn as the Ordnance Survey sentence! Nevertheless, old documents are David I (1124-53), but here the records are not maps which only started in the early nineteenth where most of the early spellings of place- so detailed. Strathardle was granted to Scone century, and did not reach Perthshire and names are to be found and there are a myriad Abbey in David’s reign, but we are given no Angus until the 1860s. It is from the Ordnance of different documents. information regarding the settlements in Survey that we get the majority of our current Generally, however, they fall into a small Strathardle until the fourteenth or fifteenth spellings of place-names. number of types, including: charters granting or centuries. Royal records can go missing too, exchanging land; rentals of land; wills and often due to war, or accident (in 1661 many testaments; travellers’ and ministers’ accounts; Scottish records were lost when the ship carry letters and recollections. All of these can be them sank off the English coast. The records further sub-divided into royal, ecclesiastical, were being returned to Edinburgh after they and private. All this affects how early and how had been taken to London by Oliver Cromwell). often which names appear on record. There are many documents of private Many Pictish and Gaelic place-names only landowners held in the National Records of appear on record due to the modern map Scotland in Edinburgh (along with royal and makers of the eighteenth and nineteenth ecclesiastical records), but they are often not centuries. The reason is in part due to the published like the royal and ecclesiastical survival of records (they can be lost, among records, while others are in the hands of other reasons, due to war, fire, rot, rodents, individuals or companies which can make The Upper Lunch Hut, photo George Logan and damp) and in part due to who the access difficult. The most useful private landowner or landholder was. The medieval records for the Cateran Trail are those relating Prior to the arrival of the Ordnance Survey church was very jealous of its possessions and to the Invercauld estate for Glenshee and the there was no system of standardised spelling often kept detailed records of their properties, Ramseys of Bamff for the areas around Bamff 2 Mini Trail and Alyth. Hill-names only generally come on by a barbarous intermixture, mutually corrupt There was a change in Gaelic pronunciation in record from the time of the Ordnance Survey, each other. All the names of places are Gaelic’. words beginning cn, which seems to have although some of the bigger or more prominent This ‘intermixture’ is noted in Kilmadock parish, taken place in the early modern period. The hills, such as Mount Blair, can be found on in southern Perthshire where it was stated that change from /n/ to /r/ in Gaelic words beginning Pont and Stobie. Gaelic was corrupted by its vicinity to Scots, cn or gn is ‘comparatively late’ according to and in Glenshee this ‘corruption’ of Gaelic was Thomas O’Rahilly, a prominent Irish scholar; probably the result of the interaction of two he suggested the change took place in LANGUAGE distinct linguistic communities lying on the Scotland by the mid-sixteenth century or later. border of Highland Glenshee and Lowland Crock reflects modern Gaelic pronunciation of Underpinning all this, of course, is language. Strathmore with its trading centres such as cnoc, and means that the representation of this Gaelic predominates along the Cateran Trail. Blairgowrie and Coupar Angus, who were both spelling, Crock rather than Knock, on a modern Not only is it the original language of most of linked to Dundee and Perth. map indicates that Gaelic was still being the settlement names, but is the language of spoken in this part of the Angus Glens in the the majority of relief features such as hill and mid to late sixteenth century.
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