English / Map Form: Kirriemuir
Gaelic Form: An Ceathramh Mòr
Location: Angus
Post Town: FORFAR
County: Angus
Local Authority: Angus
English / Map Form: Kirriemuir
Gaelic Form: An Ceathramh Mòr
Language Notes
Element Meaning
G ceathramh ~ quarter-land; mòr ~ large
Sources
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