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Pentaskill OS 1234 5678 Angus Pentaskill Burn Derivation: from the Gaelic "peit an t-soisgeil, 'the gospel's share.'" (Watson, WJ 1926) Earlier forms: Pettintoscall 1410 (Register of the Bishopric of Brechin) Pettintoskell 1472 (Register of the Great Seal of Scotland) Pettintoskane 1472 (Register of the Great Seal of Scotland) Pettintoskell 1533, 1541 (Register of the Great Seal of Scotland) Pentoskell 1606 (Register of the Great Seal of Scotland) Pintoscall 1634 (Register of the Great Seal of Scotland) Pintescall 1686 Notes: "The lands may have been so called simply as belonging to the Church, having been gifted as a screabal soiscela, 'gospel penny,' like the places called Ibert and Offerance." (Watson, WJ 1926) see also Bantaskin, Stirlingshire, and Pettuscal, Fife References: Inquisitionum ad Capellam Domini Regis Retornatorum quae in publicis archivis Scotiae, 1846 Watson, WJ 1926 - The History of the Celtic Place-names of Scotland

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