Fife Place-name Data

Bargaty

Bargaty # CUS S NT000884 2 25m

terras de Bergady 1540 x 1543 RMS iii no. 2869 [see CUS Introduction]
Bargaty 1540 x 1543 RMS iii no. 2869 [see CUS Introduction]
Bargady 1540 x 1543 RMS iii no. 2869 [see CUS Introduction]
liberam tenandriam seu tenementum de Bargady 1540 x 1543 RMS iii no. 2869 [free tenandry of Bargaty]
Bargattie 1589 RMS v no. 1675
Bargadie 1592 RMS v no. 2152 [to Robert Bruce of Blairhall]
Bargatie 1609 RMS vii no. 9
Bargerty 1753 Roy sheet 16, 1
Bargelly 1775 Ainslie/Fife [presumably an error for *Bargetty]
Bargaty 1783 Stobie

G bàrr + ? G gad + ? - in

‘(Place of) withy or osier or switch hill’. The final syllable is probably the loc. suffix –in. The G element b?rr ‘hill, summit’ is very rare in Fife names, but is found twice in CUS (see CUS Introduction under the discussion of *Barchapel).

According to Beveridge (1885, ii, 367) it was ‘a farm which formerly stood on the road between Shiresmill CUS and East Grange CUS ... the ascent is still known as Bargatie Brae’

NGR is inferred from Stobie (1783).

This place-name appeared in printed volume 1

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