Knee of Cairnsmore
hill or mountain · Dumfries and Galloway · 657m
GaelicAI-generated
This name likely derives from the Gaelic 'ceann' meaning 'head' or 'top', and 'cairn' meaning 'heap of stones' or 'rocky hill'. 'More' means 'great'. This refers to the 'head of the great cairn'.
Word origins
- Knee
- GaelicPossibly a corruption of 'ceann' (head, top)(from ceann "head, top")
- of
- Unknownpreposition
- Cairnsmore
- Gaelicgreat cairn(from carn "cairn, heap of stones, rocky hill", mòr "great")