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Mount Keen

Mon Caoin


Upland

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Angus

Angus

DD9

NO409869


English / Map Form: Mount Keen

Gaelic Form: Mon Caoin


Post Town: BRECHIN

Postcode area: DD9

County: Angus

Local Authority: Angus

English / Map Form: Mount Keen

Gaelic Form: Mon Caoin


Sources

Mon kīng (from several in Braemar) Mon’ chaoin (J Michie) mon cīn (K Lamont) Mon a chao(bh)unn, second syllable nasal, in German phon. Spelling mŏnĕ chöunn (J Michie per Dieckhoff): Diack MS2276, 91

“My recollection is that the older Deeside people, when they spoke of ‘Munth Keen,’ meant the track that way rather than the hill itself.” W. M. Alexander, Mounth Roads

“from Caoin, gentle”: Drummond, 36

Additional Information

Munro M235, 939m

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