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Pit- placenames
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Pitfirrane
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Fife

Pitfirrane
Pitfirrane Castle
Pitfirrane Colliery

Derivation:

from the Gaelic "Baile Phuir", the place of the pasture (Watson, WJ 1926)

Earlier forms:

Petfurane
1474 (Register of the Great Seal of Scotland)
Pitferren

Notes:

see also Pitfour, Aberdeenshire, Pitfour, Banffshire, Pitfour, Perthshire, Pitfour, Ross & Cromarty, Pitfour, Sutherland, Pitfure, Sutherland, and Porin, Ross & Cromarty

References:

Watson, WJ 1926 - The History of the Celtic Place-names of Scotland
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