[1024] The name Tom-a-mhoid is derived by some writers from the Gaelic Tom, a tumulus (Welsh Tomen) and moid, a meeting. Is there such a word for a meeting in Gaelic? If there is, it must be derived from Anglo-Saxon mot or gemot. But there is no need to go to Gaelic for this word, as it is clear from the Registrum Magni Sigilli that moit was a common version of mote, and meant a castle hill, the mota or mons castri, as it is often called.
[1025] Chalmers, Caledonia, iii., 864. Sir Archibald Lawrie, however, regards it as doubtful whether Arkel was the ancestor of the earls of Lennox. Early Scottish Charters, p. 327.
[1026] M‘Ferlie, Lands and Their Owners in Galloway, ii., 140-141.
[1027] See plan in MacGibbon and Ross, Castellated Architecture, iv., 341.
[1028] The name Maccus is undoubtedly the same as Magnus, a Latin adjective much affected as a proper name by the Norwegians of the 11th and 12th centuries.
[1029] Lawrie, Early Scottish Charters, p. 273.
[1030] MacGibbon and Ross, i., 279.
[1031] Proceedings of Soc. Ant. Scotland, xxxi., and N. S. A.
[1032] See Armstrong’s History of Liddesdale, cited by MacGibbon and Ross, i., 523.
[1033] Round, The Ancestor, No. 11, 130.