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List of names as written	Various modes of spelling	Authorities for spelling	Situation	Description remarks
CUNNIGAR	Cunnigar (Antiquity)	Rev [Reverend] W. Walker, Manse of Mid Calder James Hislop, Midcalder school	004	An eminence of a considerable size, situated on the North West side of Mid Calder and on the south bank of the Almond Water The word Cunnigar signifies "The guard or Keeper of the Conies or Rabbits" This mound is supposed to have originated with the Druids, who always held their meetings, civil and religious in the open air, on mounds of earth either natural or artificial; and from which etymologists assert that the name Calder is derived, viz [namely] the Celtic word Cadair, which signifies a meeting or assembly, and as the above mound is situated close to the village, it has been conjectured that it was erected by the Bards and Druids These assemblies according to the custom of all barbarous nations were held in some open field capable of containing a vast number of persons who had a right to be present. The person who officiated as reciter or crier at those provincial meetings was called the "Dadgeiniad"; and Dadridge, or Dadridgerig, which is about a mile west of this mound, has therefore supposed to have been the residence of this officer. This however is much a conjecture It is said also that upon this mound many of those unhappy creatures called witches, were burnt. In those days of superstition, Calder was [continues on Page 84 following]

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P [Plan] 4D List of Names collected by John E Darnan RS [Royal Sappers] & Miners
[Object] Eminence]
[Parish] Mid Calder

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