Talk:Rhins of Galloway

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What is (are) Rhins?

What does Rhins mean? Are there more than one? Are there other places called The Rhins of... ? --AW 21:38, 25 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Anyone? --AW (talk) 20:13, 28 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Herbert Maxwell in The Places Names of Galloway (Glasgow, 1930) p.234 gives 'Rhinns' as rionn, rinn, a point or promontory and quotes O'Brien's (?) Dictionary "It would take more than a whole sheet to mention all the neck-lands of Ireland whose name begins with this word rinn".

In Galloway (Stewartry of Kirkcubdright) there is a range of hills up to 2500 feet high called the Rhinns of Kells which run from Clatteringshaws Loch to Loch Doon, highest peak being Corserine (= cross-rhinn) 814 metres.

On Islay, which is also mentioned by Maxwell, there is (are?) the Rhinns of Islay, a penninsula on the north -west side of Loch Indaal. Alistairliv (talk) 17:32, 23 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

One n

This seems to have found its way back to two n's - despite the fact that that is not what it is called. The usage of two n's is historical, not contemporary - and all respectable geographical current sources use one n - including the OS, who are pretty much the authority on place names. Google searches with quotes yields ~7000 hits for one n and ~3000 for two - without quotes the ratio is even higher in favour of one n.