Auchendinny

Achadh na Daingnich

Meaning

the field of the fortress

Settlement

Location

Midlothian

Midlothian

EH26

NT254620

English / Map Form: Auchendinny

Gaelic Form: Achadh na Daingnich

Post Town: PENICUIK

Postcode area: EH26

County: Midlothian

Local Authority: Midlothian

English / Map Form: Auchendinny

Gaelic Form: Achadh na Daingnich

Sources

“Auchendinny, Aghendini, 1335; Aughendeny, 1336; Aghendeni, 1337 (Bain’s Cal.), is from O.Ir. dind, gen. denna, a height, a fortress, or from dindgna, gen. dindgnai, of the same meaning; compare Auchindinnie, Gartly, Aberdeen; Baldinnie, Ceres, Fife; Blairindinny, Kennethmont, Aberdeen, Denny, etc. Achadh an Dainginn ‘the field of the fortress’”: Watson 1926, 143