Fife Place-name Data

Rickle Knowe

Rickle Knowe AMY R NO236127 1 362

?   Rithel Bank 1817 Sasines no. 11,340 [part of the Bondhalf # AMY, q.v.]
    Rickle Knowe 1856 OS 6 inch 1st edn

Sc rickle + Sc knowe

‘Small hill (made up of) a heap or pile’ or ‘ramshackle hill’. See DOST under rickle or ruckle, whose meanings cover those of ‘heap, pile, collection (of objects) esp. one loosely or carelessly thrown together’; also refers to dry-stone walls, heaps of peats stacked loosely for drying, and such like forms.

This place-name appeared in printed volume 4

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