Down Law
Down Law KTT S NO343071 1 373 240m
Broun hills 1654 Blaeu (Pont) East Fife [see discussion]
Down Hill 1790s OSA, 441 [see Bowden KTT for full context]
Down Law 1856 OS 6 inch 1st edn
en Down + Sc law
‘Hill of Down’, Down in turn being derived from G dùn ‘hill-fort’, for details of which see Downfield KTT, above.
On Blaeu (Pont) East Fife Broun hills is the name of a settlement between Bunzion (Bunzum) CLT and Burnturk (Burne turk) KTT, so probably refers to Downfield, which is not otherwise shown on this map. It no doubt arose from a misreading of Pont’s now lost MS by Blaeu’s typesetters in Amsterdam.
This place-name appeared in printed volume 2