Pitcaple


Parish: Chapel of Garioch

County: Aberdeenshire

Grid reference: NJ 72730 26084

Lat / long: 57.32393802, -2.453390728

Derivation: From the Gaelic "capull", meaning "horse".

Current versions

    Pitcaple Castle

Earlier versions

The historic map is an Ordnance Survey map from 1919 to 1947, and is provided by the National Library of Scotland

References (books):

  • The Celtic Placenames of Scotland
  • W.J. Watson
  • Edinburgh and London, 1926

  • References (websites):

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    created Wednesday, January 18th, 2012 at 10:55 pm, last updated Saturday, February 4th, 2012 at 9:01 pm