SCOTLAND: PLACE NAMES OF SCOTLAND: - JAMES B JOHNTON 1903. CD-WIN/MACThe study of place-names may be said to stand to history and ethnology in somewhat the same relation as the study of fossils stangs to geology. Each group of fossils more or less represents a distince age of geologic time; so, rougly speaking does each group of place-name represent a period of historic or pre-historic time. This book has a write up of each of the different type of names found in Scotland, then followed by an A-Z listing of the places with details of their origins. Example of a couple of entries:
KYLOE, West. Prob G. caol abh 'narrows of the water.' Cf. AWE and Kyloe, 1610, Kyley, S. of Berwick.
LADYBANK (Fife). The Lindores monks dug peats here, fr. 13th century; hence called 'Our Lady's Bog,' but also 'Lathybog,' which looks like G. leathad bog, 'moist hill-slope'; about sixty years ago 'improved' into Landbank. There was also once a 'Lady-Bank' near Arbroath. High quality scanned images of the whole of the original book. This CD can be viewed by any computer using Adobe Acrobat Reader (version 4 or later recommended). The data on this CD is completely self-contained, and requires no installation. System Requirements: Windows 95, 98, 2000, NT or better, CD-ROM drive, Adobe Acrobat. Also suitable for Macintosh or Unix operating systems.
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| Item Number: | 113-GB0927 |
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CD-WIN/MAC
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422
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2002
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J. Johnston
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Archive CD Books
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