Kirkmahoe

55.1°N 3.6°W / 55.1; -3.6Kirkmahoe is a civil parish in Dumfries and Galloway. The parish contains the settlements Kirkton, where the parish church is located, Dalswinton and Duncow. It is bounded by the parishes of Dumfries to the south, Holywood and Dunscore to the west, and Kirkmichael and Tinwald to the east.^[1]

The name Kirkmahoe commemorates St Kentigern, the patron saint of Glasgow.^[2] Mo Choe is the Gaelic equivalent of Mungo, the Cumbric hypocoristic form of Kentigern.^[3]

Kirkmahoe parish church, Kirkton

References

1. Duncan, Walter (1962). "Chapter 12: The Parish of Kirkmahoe". In Houston, George (ed.). The County of Dumfries. The Third Statistical Account of Scotland. Glasgow: Collins. p. 139.
2. "Kirkmahoe, eccles. Kirkmahoe". Saints in Scottish Place-Names. Archived from the original on 3 April 2015. Retrieved 3 April 2015.
3. "Kentigern of Glasgow". Saints in Scottish Place-Names. Archived from the original on 3 April 2015. Retrieved 3 April 2014.

   • For the linguistic details of these names see Jackson, Kenneth Hurlstone (1958). "Chapter VI: The Sources for the Life of St Kentigern". In Chadwick, Nora K. (ed.). Studies in the Early British Church. Cambridge University Press. pp. 300–302. and Ó Baoill, Colm (1993). "St Machar - Some Linguistic Light?". Innes Review. 44: 9–10. doi:10.3366/inr.1993.44.1.1.

External links

Kirkmahoe at scotlandsplaces.gov.uk