Kincardine ( gd, Cinn Chàrdainn) is a small hamlet in
Sutherland
Sutherland ( gd, Cataibh) is a historic county, registration county and lieutenancy area in the Highlands of Scotland. Its county town is Dornoch. Sutherland borders Caithness and Moray Firth to the east, Ross-shire and Cromartyshire (later ...
, situated on the west end of the south shore of the
Dornoch Firth
The Dornoch Firth ( gd, Caolas Dhòrnaich, ) is a firth on the east coast of Highland, in northern Scotland. It forms part of the boundary between Ross and Cromarty, to the south, and Sutherland, to the north. The firth is designated as a nationa ...
.
The village of
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
Gaelic is an adjective that means "pertaining to the Gaels". As a noun it refers to the group of languages spoken by the Gaels, or to any one of the languages individually. Gaelic languages are spoken in Ireland, Scotland, the Isle of Man, and Ca ...
adaptation of a
Pictish
Pictish is the extinct language, extinct Brittonic language spoken by the Picts, the people of eastern and northern Scotland from Late Antiquity to the Early Middle Ages. Virtually no direct attestations of Pictish remain, short of a limited num ...
name.
The second element is the Pictish ''*carden'', perhaps meaning "encampment" or "brake".
The first element represent Gaelic ''ceann'' substituting an original Pictish ''*pen'', both meaning "end, head, top",
giving an aboriginal form of ''*Pencarden''.
See also
*
Kincardine (disambiguation) Kincardine may refer to:
Places Scotland
*Kincardine, Fife, a town on the River Forth, Scotland
**Kincardine Bridge, a bridge which spans the Firth of Forth
*Kincardineshire, a historic county
**Kincardine, Aberdeenshire, now abandoned
**Kincardi ...
References
Populated places in Sutherland
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