English / Map Form: Kinghorn
Gaelic Form: Ceann Gronn
Post Town: BURNTISLAND
Postcode area: KY3
County: Fife
Local Authority: Fife
English / Map Form: Kinghorn
Gaelic Form: Ceann Gronn
Language Notes
Element Meaning
Sources
caolas King-horn: Turner’s Gaelic Poems, 193
Kinghom, Kyngorn 1374 (RMS), etc., is still pronounced Fife locally, as I am informed, Kin-gom with stress on the second part. It means ;bog-head,’ and adjacent to it is Grangemyre.: Watson, 1926, 379 [in discussion on element gronn.]
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