English / Map Form: Muckraw
Gaelic Form: A’ Mhucrach
Post Town: BATHGATE
Postcode area: EH48
County: West Lothian
Local Authority: West Lothian
English / Map Form: Muckraw
Gaelic Form: A’ Mhucrach
Sources
Muckraw means ‘swine place.’: Watson 1926, 146
Cf also: “Muckra appears to be for mucrach, ‘place of swine’; compare Muckera in Ireland (Joyce)” Watson 1926, 138 [a different place]
Other place-names such as Muckrach are in Gaelic A’ Mhucrach, such as Muicrach in Morvern: a’ Mhucrach in Robertson
