Brittonic Place-names from South-West Scotland Part 5: Minnygap and Minnigaff
TDGNHAS Series III, 78 (2004), 121(4.91 MB)
Abstract
The names of Minnygap near Moffat and Minnigaff by Newton Stewart have puzzled scholars. Yet they can be taken as Cumbric forms meaning 'bush by a hollow' and 'smith's bush'. They parallel obsolete 'Munmaban' near Peebles and 'Monynut' near Haddington, th