Kincardine, Sutherland
Kincardine
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 Croick Old Parish Church. Croick Church was built, with Government Grants, in 1827 at a cost of £1527 to plans by Thomas Telford. Glencalvie was cleared in 1845 and the names of many of the people evicted can be seen scratched in the windows of the church. | |
  Kincardine Location within the Sutherland area | |
| OS grid reference | NH607894 |
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| Country | Scotland |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Post town | Ardgay |
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| Dialling code | 01863 766xxx |
| Police | Scotland |
| Fire | Scottish |
| Ambulance | Scottish |
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Kincardine (Scottish Gaelic: Cinn Chàrdainn) is a small hamlet in Sutherland, situated on the west end of the south shore of the Dornoch Firth.[1] The village of Ardgay is less than 1 mile north west of Kincardine along the A836 coast road.
Etymology[]
The name Kincardine, as with other locations so-named, may be a Gaelic adaptation of a Pictish name.[2] The second element is the Pictish *carden, perhaps meaning "encampment" or "brake".[2] The first element represent Gaelic ceann substituting an original Pictish *pen, both meaning "end, head, top",[2] giving an aboriginal form of *Pencarden.[2]
See also[]
- Kincardine (disambiguation)
References[]
- ^ Gittings, Bruce; Munro, David. "Kincardine". The Gazetteer for Scotland. School of GeoSciences, University of Edinburgh and The Royal Scottish Geographical Society. Retrieved 29 October 2018.
- ^ a b c d Hall, Mark A; Driscoll, Stephen T; Geddess, Jane (11 November 2010). Pictish Progress: New Studies on Northern Britain in the Early Middle Ages. Brill. p. 85. ISBN 9789004188013. Retrieved 30 June 2019.
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