English / Map Form: Tomnaverie
Gaelic Form: Tom na h-Aifrinn
Post Town: ABOYNE
Postcode area: AB34
County: Aberdeenshire
Local Authority: Aberdeenshire
English / Map Form: Tomnaverie
Gaelic Form: Tom na h-Aifrinn
Sources
“[tam’nevri, tam’nevren] Pronounced Tam-nave-rie; by old people Tam-nave-rin: stressed on -nave-.. but the old name is still known as Tamnavrie or Tamnavrin. The latter sound, which is only used by the oldest people, confirms the interpretation of tom na h-Aifrinn, hillock of the Mass. This meaning was apparently know traditionally”: Alexander 1952, 386.
“The hill or eminence is known by the name Tomnaverie a word of Gaelic extraction and said to signify the hill of truth or worship or of justiciary trial.” NSA ABD Tarland and Migvie 842
“One of those circles of stones standing upright so common in Britain and called Druidical circles may be seen on a small hill called Tom na hivrigh or the ‘Hill of worship or justice.’” NSA, ABD, Coull, 958