English / Map Form: Kirriemuir
Gaelic Form: Ceathramh Mhoire
Location: Angus
Post Town: FORFAR
Postcode area: DD8
County: Angus
Local Authority: Angus
English / Map Form: Kirriemuir
Gaelic Form: Ceathramh Mhoire
Genitive Form: Cheamhramh Mhoire
Language Notes
Element Meaning
G ceathramh ~ quarter-land; moire ~ St Mary
Sources
Bricii sacerdotis de Kerimure c.1220 Arb. Lib. i no. IV (pp. 330-1)
ecclesia de Kerymur 1250 x 1259 Dunf. Reg. no. 313 p. 210 [30 merks]
vicarius de Kyrmur 1275 Bag. Roll MS. fo. 62 [p. 63]
Kellymoor c. 1591 Pont text 139r
Kerymur 1482 RMS iii, 1559
Kirremure 1668 Retours (Forfar) 434
Kirriemuir 1696 Retours (forfar) 540
Kear an vwyde: Lhuyd 1699, 20
carn-mhoir, kerri mhuir, cill mhoir, keri-vor, cairidh-mhor, keran-voir.: Diack Inscriptions, 184 and MS2276
Kirriemuir Cill-Mhoire (from a Glengairn man) but usually Cearr Mhoire [From F. C, Diack W Beechgrove Aver..Aberdeen (whose authority was mainly Mrs Macpherson (86) Woodhill Braemar) 31 March 1910]: Watson CW9
Ceathramh, An Ceathramh Mòr: Mark
