Craigentinny

Craigentinny
Craigentinny House
Craigentinny is located in the City of Edinburgh council area
Craigentinny
Craigentinny
Location within the City of Edinburgh council area
Craigentinny is located in Scotland
Craigentinny
Craigentinny
Location within Scotland
OS grid referenceNT291749
Council area
CountryScotland
Sovereign stateUnited Kingdom
Post townEDINBURGH
Postcode districtEH7
Dialling code0131
PoliceScotland
FireScottish
AmbulanceScottish
UK Parliament
Scottish Parliament
List of places
UK
Scotland
55°57′31.94″N 3°7′58.07″W / 55.9588722°N 3.1327972°W / 55.9588722; -3.1327972

Craigentinny is a suburb in the north-east of Edinburgh, Scotland, east of Restalrig and close to Portobello.

Its name may be a corruption of the Gaelic Creag an t-Sionnaich, meaning "the fox's rock".[1]

  1. ^ Dixon, Norman (1947). The Placenames of Midlothian (PDF) (PhD thesis). Edinburgh University. p. 74.