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Cairnwhin Hill

hill or mountain · South Ayrshire

GaelicAI-generated

Cairnwhin Hill is a Gaelic name, possibly meaning 'cairn hill'. It combines the Gaelic word for a heap of stones with a Gaelic or Scots word for a hill.

Word origins

Cairn
Gaelicheap of stones, cairn(from carn "heap of stones, cairn")
whin
Gaelichill(from choin "hill")
Hill
Scotshill(from hill "hill")