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Ordnance Survey - Aberdeen county, OS Name Books - Aberdeen county - Volume 43 - Parish of Keig, OS1/1/43

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Parish of Keig

[Note beside 'Tappie Crunnich'] - "Tappie - Anything raised very high.
Crummaock - Skirret, a plant.
Crummock. - A cow with crooked horns." nom. [nominative] "Crumag - The plant skirret." (Gaelic)
Crummock - A stick with a crooked hand. gen [genitive] Crumaig. (Jamieson)
From an old native I learned that on the Tap was a fine spring well bearing the same name. It is very probable Tappie is a corruption of Tobar & that the name means Well of the gathering. [Initialled] JMcD

Ordnance Survey - Aberdeen county, OS Name Books - Aberdeen county - Volume 43 - Parish of Keig, OS1/1/43

This volume contains information on Aberdeenshire place names found in the parish of Keig.

Ordnance Survey - Aberdeen county

Ordnance Survey was established in the 18th century to create maps, surveys and associated records for the entirety of Great Britain. These records are arranged by county. This entry has been created to enable searching for Ordnance Survey records for the county of Aberdeen, which is in the north east of Scotland. The boundaries of the county were altered by the Boundary Commissioners in 1891.

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