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Scottish Place-Name News No. 16 No. 16 Spring 2004 The Newsletter of the SCOTTISH PLACE-NAME SOCIETY COMANN AINMEAN-AITE NA H-ALBA Looking down the course of the Kethyn Burn, south over Easter Kinnear and the Motray Valley in North East Fife. (Photo by Simon Taylor) This is part of the delectable and productive landscape ‘Between Motray and Tay’, subject of an article on pages4-6. 2 The postal address of the Scottish Place- references are quite clear that the Stormonth was Name Society is: then divided almost equally into East and West. c/o Department of Celtic and Scottish Studies, It was decided to resurrect the name in the year University of Edinburgh, 27 George Square, 2000 when a local history society came into Edinburgh EH8 9LD being covering almost exactly the lands south- Newsletter Editor: Bill Patterson (e-mail west of the Tay described as “West Stormonth” [email protected]) 400 years before. Membership Details: This district extends for some 100 square miles immediately north of Perth (or in reality Annual membership £5, to be sent to Peter Inveralmond) as far as the southern slopes of Drummond, Apt 8 Gartsherrie Academy, Birnam Hill, near Dunkeld, and from Academy Place, Coatbridge Logiealmond in the west to Kinclaven in the http://www.st-and.ac.uk/institutes/sassi/ east. The rivers Almond and Tay form the spns/index.html natural south, east and north-east boundaries of Subscriptions, £5 per annum, are now due for this area which is enclosed all along its north- the financial year just starting. Those of you who west by the Grampian Mountains immediately paid in advance over 3 years will not have a north of the Highland Boundary Fault. reminder in their mailing, because your next Starting out on an amateur’s toponymic payment is due in 2005 or 2006 depending on exploration of the area I have first looked at when you paid. (Of course, if you are feeling some modern names. Later I will attempt to peel affluent and generous, you can always send a back, layer by layer, the various strata of place- donation!) Members who are due should have names left by previous inhabitants. received a yellow reminder slip with this st newsletter, and cheques should be sent to the For this first part useful guides have been: the 1 treasurer Peter Drummond at 8, Academy Place, edition Ordnance Survey large-scale map Coatbridge ML5 3AX. Please consider paying 3 surveyed in 1864; a detailed county map of years at a time - this saves a lot of administrative Perthshire published in 1783 by local man James work. Stobie; and a clutch of military maps published immediately after the Jacobite rising, the best of EDITORIAL which was Roy’s survey. In this newsletter we record the deaths of two The century covered by all these maps is of distinguished members, David Dorward and Roy particular interest for West Stormont as it saw a Wentworth. Whilst nothing can make up for period when the establishment of planned that loss to all of us but especially to their villages was in vogue. A glance at the earlier families, the opportunity is taken to review their maps makes it obvious there were no distinct very considerable achievements in place-name villages within this area between Perth and studies. Dunkeld. Today’s tiny hamlet of Airntully More happily this spring edition includes the (earann tulaich, share of the hillock), now remote usual summaries of talks at a very enjoyable and from the main roads, was then the largest enlightening November conference, this time in community in the district with some 80 simple Dundee, and a look ahead to forthcoming stone and turf dwellings scattered to either side events. of the old track to the Caputh boat. BETWIXT ALMOND AND TAY All this started to change from 1752 when what was to become one of the busiest bleachworks in First steps in an exploration of the Perthshire place-names of the whole country was established alongside the West Stormont –summary of part of a talk at the Dundee Tay at Luncarty. The planned village here never conference of the SPNS, Nov. 2003. quite materialised as such and it awaited the For the past few hundred years Stormont has establishment of the next textile village, Stanley, been thought of as only the area (actually East founded in 1785 by Richard Arkwright and local Stormont) to the north of the Tay around landowner the Duke of Atholl, before the new Caputh and Clunie, between Dunkeld and village concept took off. Blairgowrie. However, 16th and early 17th century 3 The name of Stanley comes from the Earl of important. There is a plethora of names just Derby’s family, one of whom married into the south of Luncarty commemorating the fabled Atholl Murrays in the late 17th century. The battle here in the 10th century between the Scots modest mansion (now in ruins) on the banks of and the Danes. Thus Denmarkfield and the Tay was then renamed after the Stanley Denmark Green made their appearance family almost 100 years before the building alongside Turn-again Hillock and the farm of nearby of the massive cotton mill complex, now Hillside was renamed Battleby when the house saved for the nation by Historic Scotland. there was greatly extended in the 1860s. James Stobie, our local cartographer and estate Leslie Fraser [Leslie hopes to continue his exploration factor for the Duke, drew plans for the mills and of West Stormont names in a future Newsletter] village; thus it was hardly surprising that he was RIVER AND BURN NAMES OF THE called upon some three years later when adjacent OCHIL HILLS landowner Thomas Graham (later the celebrated Lord Lynedoch of Peninsular War fame) wanted Summary of a talk given at the Dundee Conference. to plan the village of Pitcairngreen to provide The purpose of this paper was two-fold; on the housing for a new bleachworks built alongside one hand, I intended to give a very brief survey the nearby River Almond. of river and burn names in the Ochil Hills, and In this instance the name simply picked up on then to explore how data gathered about these the existing pett carn (portion at the cairn) which names could be used in a statistical approach to tells of the massive pre-historic mound of stones solve some traditional problems in Onomastics. a short distance from the new community which Due to technical problems on the day, some was designed around an English-style village points were not as clearly made as I had hoped green. But next came the even more prosaically- and more space will be given to them here. named Bankfoot, founded about 1811 on flat The waters draining off the Ochil Hills on the ground below the high tower of Auchtergaven western side feed the two major tributaries of the parish kirk (sadly, recently gutted by fire). lower Forth, the Allan and the Devon. To the Several attempts have been made since then to eastern side the Ochils feed the Earn, the Eden rename the village after the parish but so far to and to a lesser extent, Loch Leven. It is perhaps no avail. unsurprising that these rivers probably have the Last of the planned villages in this area was oldest names in this area. Nicolaisen (SPN:240- Harrietfield which came into existence in 1822 241) suggests that the Allan and the Earn are when the then Drummond of Logie laird was pre-Celtic, whilst the Eden (PNORB:380) and renaming various properties in the locality after the Devon (NOMINA 25:139-145) almost members of his family; thus we also have certainly belong to the earliest stratum of Celtic Francesfield and Louisafield farms nearby. nomenclature. When the estate was bought in the 1840s by the With the exception of the upper part of the Scone Palace family, we see names introduced Devon, and Nethy Burn (NO1917), there are with the Murray prefix. The re-naming fashion possibly no rivers with Brythonic names which had been picked up on by relatives of both these penetrate very far into the Ochils. Those that do families thus Mukkersy (swinelands) just north of so generally have names deriving from existing Stanley and Campsie Linn had earlier been settlement names situated outside the Ochil euphemistically turned into Taymount. Farther Hills, such as Dollar Burn (NS9696), and are north we later found one of the Airntully farms not to be regarded as Pictish names as such. being called Stewart Tower and another Gaelic was spoken in this area for perhaps only a Drummondhall. few hundred years before being subsumed by Before we leave the 19th century business of re- Scots; the tentative dates of about 900 AD - 1400 naming properties it may be worth mentioning AD seem reasonable for the period of Gaelic in James Stobie’s farm near Luncarty which quietly the Ochils (OPHT:13). With this in mind it is transformed from Marlhaugh –the hollow piece surprising that so large a quantity of Gaelic of ground where they excavated marl-filled names have survived, albeit in an anglicised ground to fertilise the fields – to become form. These names tend to refer chiefly to Marlehall, making it sound that bit more agriculture in some way or another, generally in 4 respect of a nearby place name (Glenach Burn therefore could be watercourse situated in a NN9102 1769 Glen Egh; Gaelic Gleann Eich, rocky mountainous area. ‘Horse Glen’). Part of the aim of this study was to discover Lastly, there is a multitude of small burn names ways in which it was possible to build on some which are of Scots origin peppered throughout of the excellent work done in the past in the field the Ochil Hills.
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