2018

NS3483 : The northern side of Gouk Hill

taken 6 years ago, near to Dumfin, Argyll And Bute, Scotland

The northern side of Gouk Hill
The northern side of Gouk Hill
This is the opposite view to NS3483 : The northern side of Gouk Hill. A fire in Glen Fruin was producing a large plume of smoke.
Gouk Hill :: NS3482

The hill, on the Highland Boundary Fault, has outcrops of puddingstone, which, at this site, is Inchmurrin Conglomerate. The hill is marked as "Gouckhill" on Roy's Military Survey of Scotland (1740s-50s); the same "Gouk" element appears to be present in the "Slewna gowack hill" shown on the 1654 Pont/Blaeu map of the Lennox. "Slewna" presumably represents the Gaelic "sliabh na" (on which, see below).

See LinkExternal link for an annotated terrain map that shows the course of the Highland Boundary Fault in relation to Gouk Hill and other nearby features.

For a modern and in-depth account of the "sliabh" element, to which particular significance was attached in some earlier studies of place-names, see "Sliabh in Scottish Place-Names: its Meaning and Chronology", by Simon Taylor (University of Glasgow) on pages 99—136 of Volume I (2007) of "The Journal of Scottish Name Studies": LinkExternal link


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NS3483, 35 images   (more nearby 🔍)
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Lairich Rig   (more nearby)
Date Taken
Thursday, 19 July, 2018   (more nearby)
Submitted
Tuesday, 9 October, 2018
Subject Location
OSGB36: geotagged! NS 3493 8301 [10m precision]
WGS84: 56:0.6906N 4:38.9616W
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OSGB36: geotagged! NS 3493 8301
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North-northwest (about 337 degrees)
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