Kilduff
An Ceap Dubh
Meaning
the black block-like hill
Location
East Lothian
East Lothian
EH39
NT514776
English / Map Form: Kilduff
Gaelic Form: An Ceap Dubh
Post Town: NORTH BERWICK
Postcode area: EH39
County: East Lothian
Local Authority: East Lothian
English / Map Form: Kilduff
Gaelic Form: An Ceap Dubh
Sources
Kilduff appears in the Life of St. Kentigern as ‘a hill which is called Kepduf,’ i.e. ceap dubh, ‘black block’; one infers that the other places called ‘Kip ’ are also Gaelic.: Watson 1926, 142
Mentioned in c. 1164 as monte Kepduf. This was changed to Kil- later, as if cill ‘church’.