Ross, a Celtic word, meaning a headland, occurring as the name or part of the name of many places in the British Islands, and in other parts of Europe, as Roslin, Culross, Dunrossness, Montrose, Roxburgh, Ardrossan.
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Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 8: Peasant to Eoumelia, p. 812
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