Bowhills

Bowhills # NBN F NO432046 1 SOF

collis qui vocatur le Bolhil’ 1306 Dunf. Reg. no. 590 [‘the hill which is called the Bowhill’; see NBN Introduction, Med. Marches no. 2]
Bowhills 1799 RHP22853 [field-name on Monturpie farm]
Bowhills 1908 Monturpie Plan/1908

Sc bow + Sc hill

‘Cattle hills’. On RHP22853 (1799) Bowhills is the name of the northernmost field of the main lands of Monturpie NBN, approximately where the wood is marked on OS Pathf., south-west of Craig Rock (Lahill Craig).

This place-name appeared in printed volume 2