English / Map Form: Craigmailing
Gaelic Form: Creag Maoilinn
Post Town: BATHGATE
Postcode area: EH48
County: West Lothian
Local Authority: West Lothian
English / Map Form: Craigmailing
Gaelic Form: Creag Maoilinn
Sources
“Craigmailing is probably for Creag Mhaoilinn, ‘rock of the bare round hillock,’ a term which is found in Maoilinn, anglicized as Moulin, near Pitlochry.” Watson 1926, 146
“’Hill farm,’ The second element is the dialect word Mailin(g), a farm, holding… rather than Gael. Maoilinn, a bare round hill as Watson suggests. MacDonald, 67
This is near Craigmailen.
