Blair Collection > Place names in Strathbogie, with notes historical, antiquarian and descriptive

lO Place Names in Strathbogie.
originally an entirely different meaning from
what they now suggest. Of this class are Shin-
sharnie, Inkhorn, Cromwellside, Broadsea (in
Garioch), Sunhoney, Counterlassie, and Skilma-
filly. (7) Legends or traditions attached to old
names, professing to explain their origin, though
interesting in themselves and often founded on
fact, are for the most part modern. Traditions
connected with English names are not unfre-
quently true, or partly so, (8) Many place
names are derived from personal, historical, or
ecclesiastical associations or connections ; but
these are often obscure, and the apparent connec-
tions misleading. The Danes figure somewhat
extensively in the ' phonetic etymologies' of this
county, as in Daneston ' the town of the Dane,'
and perhaps Daneston in Renfrew may be sup-
posed to have the same meaning ; but the old
form of the name in both cases is Danyelstoun.
Not a few names have historical or personal
associations where they originated, but have been
brought from a distance by family migrations.
Huntly is borrowed from Huntlie in Berwick-
shire ; Tulybardine, Perthshire, probably from
Tulybardine, Morayshire ; Pitlurg, Buchan, from
Pitlurg in Cairnie ; and Leslie in Fife, from
Leslie in Aberdeenshire. In such cases, the his-
tory of the name must be traced, before we can
know anything definite about its meaning.
Systematic changes and corruptions, appearing