Caerlanrig

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'''Caerlanrig''' - also spelled 'Carlenrig' - (Gaelic: ''Cathair Lannraig'') is a hamlet in the parish of Teviothead, Borders, Scotland, lying on the River Teviot, 6 miles (10 km) north east of that river's source, and 10 miles (16 km) south west of Hawick.

==Etymology== The first element of the name is probably the extinct Cumbric ''cair'' 'fortification', though Gaelic ''cathair'' has been suggested.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.sca.org/heraldry/laurel/precedents/bruce/names-unique.html |title=Precedents of Bruce Draconarius of Mistholme: Names - Unique to Names - Yiddish |accessdate=2006-02-13 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20070111120444/http://www.sca.org/heraldry/laurel/precedents/bruce/names-unique.html |archivedate=2007-01-11 }}</ref> The second element is generally taken as Cumbric ''lanerx'', meaning 'clearing' (cf. Welsh llanerch).<ref>Coates, Richard, Invisible Britons: the view from toponomastics. In George Broderick and Paul Cavill, eds, Language contact in the place-names of Britain and Ireland. Nottingham: English Place-Name Society, 41-53, {{cite web |url=http://www.sussex.ac.uk/linguistics/documents/rc_britons.pdf |title=Archived copy |accessdate=2006-11-09 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20061109100911/http://www.sussex.ac.uk/linguistics/documents/rc_britons.pdf |archivedate=2006-11-09 }}</ref> Another suggestion is that the name is Cumbric ''cair'' + Old English ''lang'' 'long' and ''hrycg'' 'ridge'.<ref>Bethany Fox, 'The P-Celtic Place-Names of North-East England and South-East Scotland', The Heroic Age, 10 (2007), http://www.heroicage.org/issues/10/fox.html (appendix at http://www.heroicage.org/issues/10/fox-appendix.html).</ref>

==Border reiver== It is best known for being the site where John Armstrong of Gilnockie, notorious member of Clan Armstrong and brother of Thomas, Laird of Mangerton was captured and hanged by King James V for being a reiver.<ref>Aeneas Mackay, [https://digital.nls.uk/publications-by-scottish-clubs/archive/107425727 ''Historie and cronicles of Scotland'', vol. 1 (Edinburgh, 1899), pp. 334-5]</ref> The king's household book records that James V was at Caerlanrig on Tuesday 5 July 1530.<ref>''Excerpta e libris domicilii Jacobi Quinti regis Scotorum'' (Bannatyne Club: Edinburgh, 1836), Appendix p. 31.</ref>

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== External links == {{commons category}} *[http://www.scotlandsplaces.gov.uk/search_item/index.php?service=RCAHMS&id=115213 RCAHMS record for Caerlanrig] *[http://www.scotlandsplaces.gov.uk/search_item/index.php?service=RCAHMS&id=53011 RCAHMS record for Caerlanrig, Watch Knowe] *[http://www.scottish-places.info/towns/townfirst3532.html Gazetteer for Scotland: Caerlanrig] * [https://web.archive.org/web/20060208102550/http://www.armstrong.org/border.htm Photographs of 'A tour of the Armstrong Borderland', including Gilnockie's gravemarker] *Other map sources: {{gbmapping|NT399048}}

Category:Villages in the Scottish Borders