English / Map Form: Carfin
Gaelic Form: An Càrn Fionn
Local Authority: North Lanarkshire
English / Map Form: Carfin
Gaelic Form: An Càrn Fionn
Language Notes
Element Meaning
Sources
| Carnfyn | 1488 RMS ii, 1784 |
| Carnfyn, Carnefyn | 1489 RMS ii, 1853 |
| Carnfyn | 1498 RMS 2452, ii |
| Carnfyn | 1539 RSS ii, 3228 |
| Caerfin | 1654 Blaeu |
| Carrfin | 1747-55 Roy |
See Watson 1926, 367 ‘white cairn’. BLITON also implies this may be P-Celtic.
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