Mountcastle

name

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Definitions

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A suburb of Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom. countable, uncountable
  2. 2
    An unincorporated community in New Kent County, Virginia, United States. countable, uncountable
  3. 3
    A surname from Irish. countable, uncountable

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"A Pound, Virginia man, who brought a minor to a cockfight, distributed hydrocodone and conspired with others to facilitate cockfighting, was sentenced today in the United States District Court for the Western District of Virginia in Abingdon, Acting United States Attorney Rick A. Mountcastle announced."

Etymology

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

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