English / Map Form: Dechmont
Gaelic Form: no Gaelic form
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Local Authority: West Lothian
English / Map Form: Dechmont
Gaelic Form: no Gaelic form
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Sources
“Dechmont and Dechmont Hill, Degmethe 1337 (Bain’s Cal.); Dechmont, -ment (RMS I), is the same as Dechmont and Dechmont Hill in Cambuslang, Lanarkshire. The former hill is 686 feet, and ‘commands a very extensive prospect ’ ; the latter is 602 feet, and ‘ commands a magnificent view. The first part was probably O.W. dug, now da, good, displaced by O.Ir. dag-, deg-, now deagh, good; compare the hill Deagh-choimhead, ‘good prospect,’ in Muckairn parish, Argyll. In the second part -methe of 1337 is doubtless for -menthe, with which may be compared Meneted, for Menet-ted, Menteith.” Watson 1926, 400
Additional Information
This name is of obscure British origin.
