English / Map Form: Polmont
Gaelic Form: Poll-Mhonadh
Location: Falkirk
Post Town: FALKIRK
Local Authority: Falkirk
English / Map Form: Polmont
Gaelic Form: Poll-Mhonadh
Language Notes
Element Meaning
G poll ~ mud, mire + monadh ~ moor
Sources
Polmunth ?1319 Holy. Lib. 91
Polmonth 1498 RMS ii, no. 2441
Means ‘pool-hill,’ ‘hollow-hill,’ from poll, pool also ‘hollow place’: Watson 1926, 400
Poll Mhonadh: Mac an Tàilleir
Additional Information
See BLITON where a Brittonic or perhaps Gaelic *pol- + -mönïδ, ‘pool-hill’ or ‘hollow-hill’ is proposed.