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First published 1941 (SND Vol. II).
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Quotation dates: 1930
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BO, n.3 (See quot.)Gall. 1930 H. Maxwell Place Names of Galloway 44:
The Bo Stane, a large black rock in mid-channel of the Luce. . . . In 1874 an angler asked the gamekeeper attending him why it was so called. "Just because it's like a black stot [bullock]," was the reply. Bo means a cow in old and modern Erse and Gaelic, and this name . . . has been passed down orally from Gaelic-speaking times, the sense having been preserved also.
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