Cluny

English

Proper noun

Cluny

  1. A commune in Saône-et-Loire department, Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, eastern France.
Derived terms

Etymology 2

Scottish Gaelic, from cluain (“meadow”).[1]

Proper noun

Cluny

  1. A parish south of Monymusk, Aberdeenshire council area, Scotland, the location of Cluny Castle (OS grid ref NJ6812). [2]
  2. A small village in Fife council area, Scotland, north-west of Kirkcaldy (OS grid ref NT2495). [3]
  3. A hamlet in Wheatland County, Alberta, Canada, named after the parish of Cluny in Scotland.

References
  1. Milne, J. (1912). Celtic Place-names in Aberdeenshire: With a Vocabulary of Gaelic Words Not in Dictionaries ; the Meaning and Etymology of the Gaelic Names of Places in Aberdeenshire ; Written for the Committee of the Carnegie Trust. United Kingdom: Aberdeen Daily Journal, p. 94-96
  2. Parish of Cluny
  3. OS: Fife
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