Bandon
Bandon MAI S NO276042 1 373 150m SEF
terra de Balinedon 1294 PRO E101/331/1 [o.c.; printed Balinedone in Stevenson, Documents i, 417; see MAI Introduction, Early Importance: Secular]
Ballidone 1345 x 1355 RMS i app.2 no. 849A
Balledone 1345 x 1355 RMS i app.2 no. 849B [to the Balfours, by gift of the earl of Fife]
(lands of) Ballindone 1498 RMS ii no. 2404
apud Ballindone 1498 RMS ii no. 2404
(David Balfour of) Baldone 1548 Retours Fife no. 9
(lands of) Baldone 1548 Retours Fife no. 9
(Peter Balfour of) Boldon 1553 RMS iv no. 860
Bandone c.1560 s Purves 155
(David Balfour of) Banedone 1580 RMS iv no. 3019
Bandonen 1587 Assumption 15
Bandone 1603 x 1608 RMS vi no. 2115 [Michael Balfour of Bandon (Bandone) and Euphemia Schethum his wife sell to John Clepane a portion of the lands of Bandon lying beside the royal highway between Bandon and Pilmuir (Pilmure) MAI leading to Falkland]
inche, myre and wardlandis of Bandone 1603 x 1608 RMS vi no. 2115
(David Balfour of) Bandoun 1630 Retours (Fife) no. 444
(lands of) Bandone 1630 Retours (Fife) no. 444
Balfendon 1642 Gordon MS Fife
Bandon 1654 Blaeu (Pont) East Fife
Balfindon 1654 Blaeu (Gordon) Fife
Bandon 1753 Roy sheet 18, 1
Bandon Tower 1775 Ainslie/Fife [‘in Ruins’]
G baile + G an + G dùn
‘Farm of the (fortified) hill or fortification’, baile an dùin. The dùn in question is either nearby Falkland Hill (East Lomond) itself, on whose eastern slopes Bandon lies, or (more probably) the prehistoric hill-fort on the summit of that hill, the remains of which are still clearly discernible.
The NGR given above is for site of the sixteenth-century tower of the Balfours of Bandon, now in ruins (NMRS NO20SE 3).
/ban dɔn/
This place-name appeared in printed volume 2