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Andrew Breeze

Brittonic Place-names from south-west Scotland, Part 4: Glentenmont, Rattra, Tarras and Tinny Hill

Etymology, Early Mediaeval, Mediaeval

TDGNHAS Series III, 77 (2003), 161(1.68 MB)

Abstract

Glentenmont, Rattra, Tarras and Tinny Hill are all in Dumfries and galloway, with Cumbric names that respectively seem to mean 'fire-river mountain', 'great homestead', 'strong river' and 'hill of (a man called) Tanet'. They are this evidence for the anci