Craiglog

Craiglog CRC R NO318206 1 351 150m

    Craiglug 1838 NSA ix, 633
    Craiglog 1855 OS 6 inch 1st edn

G creag + ? G clag

Probably ‘bell-(shaped) rock or crag’ (G clag, earlier clog or cloc, gen. cluig, ‘bell’). There are several places of this name in Fife, e.g. Craiglog # KCQ (PNF 3) and Craiglug DAE (see below). See also Elements Glossary PNF 5 under clag.

    The 1855 map shows a whinstone quarry on the north side of Craiglog.

This place-name appeared in printed volume 4