Fife Place-name Data

Tippermacoy

Tippermacoy # AMY S NO2213 3

    lie Tippermacoy 1602 x 1606 RMS vi no. 1786 [2 butts in the Tippermacoy’ (duas lie buttis in lie Tippermacoy); see p. 110, above]
    lie Tippermacoy 1616 RMS vii no. 1397 col. 2
    Tippermacoy 1629 Retours (Fife) no. 1563 [among the outfield-lands of the north quarter of Auchtermuchty, with The Howe (Hoill) and Floors # (Fluiris)]
    Tippermacoy 1636 Retours (Fife) no. 529

G tobar + G mac + ? pn Aodh

‘Well of the sons of Aodh (Aed)’? One of the lay abbots of Abernethy in the twelfth century was Aodh, earlier Aed (often Latinised Hugo), son of Gillemícheil earl of Fife, and father of Orm (for whom see Ormiston ABE, above). If this analysis is correct, it would be expected that the well lay on or near the boundary between the territory of Auchtermuchty and that of Abernethy, and in fact its association with The Howe, which supplies the approximate NGR, suggests that this was indeed the case.

This place-name appeared in printed volume 4

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