Corstorphine
Crois Thoirfinn
Meaning
cross of Torfin
Location
City of Edinburgh
City of Edinburgh
EH12
NT200727
English / Map Form: Corstorphine
Gaelic Form: Crois Thoirfinn
Post Town: EDINBURGH
Postcode area: EH12
County: City of Edinburgh
Local Authority: City of Edinburgh
English / Map Form: Corstorphine
Gaelic Form: Crois Thoirfinn
Sources
G crois + ON torfinnr ‘the crossing of Torfin’
“Crostorfin, c. 1130, 1142 (Chart. Hol.)… The meaning is ‘Torfin’s crossing,’ rather than ‘Torfin’s cross,’ with reference to a crossing over the hill. Torfin is a personal name; Macbeth gave Bolgyne, which belonged to the son of Torfyn, to God and to St. Serf of Loch Leven (Lawrie).” Watson 1926, 143-4.
