Auchendinny
Achadh na Daingnich
Meaning
the field of the fortress
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