Drumcarro
Drumcarro CMN SSL S NO453129 1 363 165m SWF
Drumckarach 1140 St A. Lib. 122 [Bp Robert to St Andrews Priory]
Drumkarach 1141 x 1150 David I Chrs. no. 126 [= St A. Lib. 190; date from Duncan 2005, 23]
Drumkarachin 1160 RRS i no. 174 [= St A. Lib. 206]
Drumcharachin 1160 x 1162 St A. Lib. 131
Drunkarakin 1165 x 1169 RRS ii no. 28 [o.c. corresponds to St A. Lib. 214]
Drunkarakin 1183 St A. Lib. 58
(grange of) Drumcarin 1187 St A. Lib. 64
(grange of) Dro<m>carin 1188 St A. Lib. 68
(grange of) Drumcarin 1206 St A. Lib. 73
(grange of) Drumcaran 1216 St A. Lib. 78
Druckerrach c.1220 Terrier C [17/18th c. copy; part of the Boar’s Raik]
(grange of) Drumkare 1246 St A. Lib. 93
Drumkarauch 1260 St A. Lib. 346
carbonariam nostram de Drumkarow 1442 St A. Cop. no. 117 [‘our coal-workings of Drumcarro’]
Drumcarach 1452 x 1480 RMS ii no. 1444 [St Andrews Church land]
Drumcarow 1471 RMS ii no. 1039
marresi<um> de Drumcarro 1581 RMS v no. 702 [see Northbank CMN]
Drumcarrow 1593 RMS v no. 2273 [among lands of St Andrews Priory]
parte marresie de Drumcarro 1633 Retours (Fife) no. 492 [‘in part of the marsh of Drumcarro’]
Drumcarrow 1642 Gordon MS Fife
Drumcarro 1645 APS vi (part i), 332 [part of newly formed CMN]
Drum Carro 1654 Blaeu (Gordon) Fife
Duncaro 1684 Adair/East Fife
Drumcarrow 1753 Roy sheet 18, 1 [also Cotts of Drumcarrow]
Drumcarra 1775 Ainslie/Fife
Drumcarro Collier Hall 1800 Cameron Parish Papers
Drumcarro Farm 1800 Cameron Parish Papers
Drumcarro Denn 1800 Cameron Parish Papers
Drumcarro Cotton 1800 Cameron Parish Papers
Drumcarrow 1855 OS 6 inch 1st edn
G druim + G carrach + – in
‘Stony or rocky ridge’. Early forms show the loc. ending –in. In 1260 the man who renounces all rights in Drumcarro in favour of the priory is called Falletauch, a G nick-name or by-name meaning ‘hairy’ (Modern G faltach). For the court case, see Barrow 2003, 79.
For Drumcarro Bog or Mire, see Northbank SSL.
/drʌmˈkaro/
This place-name appeared in printed volume 3