Kilduff

An Ceap Dubh

Meaning

the black block-like hill

Settlement

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’.