English / Map Form: Bothkennar
Gaelic Form: Both Cainneir
Post Town: FALKIRK
Postcode area: FK2
County: Stirlingshire
Local Authority: Falkirk
English / Map Form: Bothkennar
Gaelic Form: Both Cainneir
Sources
“Another saint of the same name, Cainer, daughter of Caelan, etc., is mentioned in LL 354 c;1 her day in Gormai is Nov. 6. The name is also Cainder, Cainer. It is probably one of them who is commemorated in Gleann Cainneir, Glenkannyror Glenkenner, now Glencannell, at the head of Loch Ba in Mull, where there was a chapel (Blaeu), and in the church of Bothkenner in Stirlingshire; see Kirkinner.” Watson 1926, 276
For early forms see Saints in Scottish Place-names here
