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List of names as written Various modes of spelling Authorities for spelling Situation Description remarks
CAIRN CATTOCH Cairn Cattach
Cairn Cattach
Cairn Cattach
Mr Alexander Sim, Rothes
Mr M Mantach Dundurcas
Mr Thomas Taylor, KnocKando
023.01 Applied to a prominent hill feature part of which is Situated in the Parish of Rothes, a part in KnocKando. There is a Small Cairn of Stones erected on the top of this hill, and it is thought by some that it is to this object that the name Applies, but the general opinion is that the name applies to the hill feature; property of the
Earl of Seafield Meaning in English The Battle Hill.

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County of Elgin ....... Parish of Rothes

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Cairn Cattoch on Plan 22 6 Inch Scale
Ph. [Parish] KnocKando
See also Cattoch Well
on Plan 22 6inch Scale KnocKando
[signed initials] J.C.
17th Feby [February] 1874

Cairn Cattach as a Hill
name Cancelled. The name
Cairn Cattoch applies
to a cairn. See Name Book for
KnocKando. The Hill is
named Hunt Hill see
same Name BooK
[signed initials] J.C. 17th Feby[February] 1874

Faint signature - Pratt [ ]
[signed]
John Duncan
Sapper RE [Royal Engineers]

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