Fife Place-name Data :: Arindinage

Arindinage

Arindinage # DAE S NO393171 2

    Ardynit 1642 Gordon MS Fife
    Ardynie 1647 RMS ix no. 1837 [see Dairsie]
    Ardindyny 1654 Blaeu (Pont) East Fife
    Ardynit 1654 Blaeu (Gordon) Fife
    Dardynie 1654 RMS x no. 279 [see Dairsie for more details]
    Arrnidynie 1654 RMS x no. 350 [part of lands and barony of Dairsie, q.v.]
    Arindinage 1695 Retours Fife no. 1370 [in the parish of Dairsie, q.v.]
? G àird or àrd + ?
‘Height of ? ’; or ‘high ?’. Given the rather alarming variation in the early forms of this name, and its relatively late appearance in the record, it is fairly pointless to offer any analysis beyond the fact that the first element may derive from a Gaelic (or Pictish) word relating to ‘high’ or ‘height’, while the rest of the name may have been influenced by Arnydie CER (PNF 2), c. seven km to the south.
    According to Gordon’s MS map of 1640s it lay west of Todhall, between Todhall and Foodie, hence the above NGR.

This place-name appeared in printed volume 4