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Kirriemuir

Ceathramh Mhoire


Meaning

quarterland of (Mother) Mary


Settlement

Location

Angus

Angus

DD8

NO384539


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

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