Gladshole

Gladshole # MAI S NO290037 1 95m

Gladshole 1775 Ainslie/Fife
Gladshole 1856 OS 6 inch 1st edn [shown as ‘ruin’]

Sc gled + Sc holl

‘Kite-hollow, hollow where kites are found’; Sc gled can also refer to other members of the hawk family such as buzzard, hen-harrier or sparrow-hawk (SND). It is on the south-western edge of the bog of Lochmuir Wood etc.

This place-name appeared in printed volume 2