Greenmyre Farm
Greenmyre Farm AMY S NO248106 1 362
lie Eister Grenemyre 1616 RMS vii no. 1397 col. 5 [a shed (division) of the *Netherfieldlands of Bondhalf; also translated into Latin in the phrase ‘with a part of the green mire’ (cum parte viridis marresie), ibid. col. 6]
in lie Grenemyre 1616 RMS vii no. 1397 col. 7
Grienmuire of Auchtermuchtie 1663 RMS xi no. 476 [*Buistslands AMY in shed (division) of land called ‘Milflat, with half of one Cowe’s grasse in’]
Greenmyre de Auchtermuchtie 1680 Retours (Fife) no. 1179 [‘with half of a grazing of one cow, the Cow’s Grass, in Greenmyre of Auchtermuchty’ (cum dimidio pasturae unius vaccae lie Cows grass, in)]
lie Wester Greenmyre de Auchtermuchtie 1680 Retours (Fife) no. 1180
Sc green + Sc mire
‘Green mire or bog’. The eponymous mire, now drained, was an eastern extension of the mire which gave its name to Myres (of Auchtermuchty), for which see Myres, below. The adjective green suggests relatively good grass cover, presumably in the drier summer months, a fact borne out also in the references to cow’s grass (see e.g. 1663 and 1680).
This place-name appeared in printed volume 4