Craigentinny
Creag an t-Sionnaich
Meaning
the rock of the fox
Location
City of Edinburgh
City of Edinburgh
EH7
NT292747
English / Map Form: Craigentinny
Gaelic Form: Creag an t-Sionnaich
Post Town: EDINBURGH
Postcode area: EH7
County: City of Edinburgh
Local Authority: City of Edinburgh
English / Map Form: Craigentinny
Gaelic Form: Creag an t-Sionnaich
Sources
“Craigentinnie is most probably for Creag an t-Sionnaigh, ‘the fox’s rock’ ; the fox survived near Edinburgh till fairly recent times”: Watson 1926, 144
See : Dixon ‘Place-names of Midlothian’, 163 for more early forms.
