Etymology

Mountcastle

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Today it means: A suburb of Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom. Full definition →

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The story

Perhaps a habitational surname from a now lost place, from mount + castle. Alternatively, a further Anglicization of the Irish surname Mountcashell.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.