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