KCB Kirkcudbrightshire

Bibliography

See Watson 'Survey' in CPNS 

Bibliography (to see the full bibliography, click here)

Ansell, Michael, 2008, ‘Carsphairn and Dalmellington Re-visited’, JSNS 2, 1–10.
Brooke, D. 1983 'Kirk-Compound Place-Names in Galloway and Carrick', Transactions of the Dumfries and Galloway Natural History and Antiquarian Society 58, 56-71.
Brooke, D., 1991, 'The Northumbrian settlements in Galloway and Carrick: an historical assessment', PSAS 121, 295-327.
[A stimulating and well-argued attempt to assess the extent and types of Northumbrian settlement in south-west Scotland in the early medieval period, using place-names, church dedications and supportive historical, topographical and archaeological evidence. It includes a very useful list of Galloway settlement-names (with early forms and analysis) deriving from Northumbrian, Cumbric, Old Norse and Gaelic.]
Fellows-Jensen, G., 1991, 'Scandinavians in Dumfriesshire and Galloway: The Place-Name Evidence', in Galloway: Land and Lordship, eds. R.D. Oram and G.P. Stell, 77-95.
MacQueen, J. 1956, 'Kirk- and Kil- in Galloway Place-Names', Archivum Linguisticum 8, 135-49.
MacQueen, J., 1973, 'The Gaelic Speakers of Galloway and Carrick', Scottish Studies 17, 17-33. [saints names in place-names]
Maxwell, H.E., 1930, The Place Names of Galloway (Glasgow, reprinted 1991, Wigtown)
[to handle with care: it has the best list of names, but some wild etymologies].