English / Map Form: Skares
Gaelic Form: no Gaelic form
Location: Cumnock
Post Town: CUMNOCK
Postcode area: KA18
County: Ayrshire
Local Authority: East Ayrshire
English / Map Form: Skares
Gaelic Form: no Gaelic form
Language Notes
Element Meaning
Sources
OS Namebook OS1/3/52/66:
Skares Rocks in the sea.
Skar – Skare – A fright. A scarecrow — Jamieson
Skeirs Mount described in 41.2
Additional Information
Alexander 1952 gives several names of Skares deriving the main from Sc skairs, ‘rocks’.
DSL gives this as ‘shares’.
