Until the early 1970s there was large apiary which was well known in the region and has lived on in the Scottish country dance " The Bees of Maggieknockater ".

The meaning of Maggieknockater is " field of the fuller " or " plain of the hilly ridge " and has nothing to do with a woman called Maggie.

Maggieknockater is situated in the heart of Scotland's Malt Whisky Trail, situated less than 4 miles from Dufftown, home of the world-famous Glenfiddich Distillery.

Less than two miles heading east along the A95 from Maggieknockater is the site for Moray's most demanding Mountain Biking trails, " The Moray Monster Trails ".

* through Maggieknockater, Mulben, Tauchers and Rosarie ;

Maggieknockater formerly had a post office ; it opened in June 1876 and closed in 1940.

The Vale of Leven ( Magh Leamhna in Gaelic ) is an area of West Dunbartonshire, Scotland, in the valley of the River Leven.

The west of this area was known as Teffia, and the east as Bregia ( Latinized from Gaelic Magh Breagh, " the great plain of Meath ").

Alternatively, is a Gaelic origin from Magh meaning a plain-most of the other islands in the Forth, such as Inchmickery, Inchcolm and Craigleith have Gaelic etymologies.

Macmerry ( Gaelic: Magh Mhoire ) is a large village located on the old A1 ( now renumbered the A199 ) just east of Tranent.

He is credited with a seventy or eighty-year reign ( depending on source ) over the Tuatha Dé Danann, before dying at the Brú na Bóinne, finally succumbing to a wound inflicted by Cethlenn during the second battle of Magh Tuiredh.

The birthday of Guru Ravidass on Magh Purnima ( February 7 ' 12 ) is celebrated as " Guru Ravidass Jayanti " every year.

The placename Maynooth, a town in north Co. Kildare, Ireland, is an anglicisation of " Magh Núad ", which means " plain of Núadu ".

The earliest form of the name is Magh nAla, meaning " plain of the stone ".

In the Annals of the Four Masters, compiled in the 1630s, Magh nAla is misrepresented as Magh Eala, the Donegal-based authors being insufficiently familiar with Cork places.

Bhogali Bihu ( mid-January, also called Magh Bihu ) comes from the word Bhog that is eating and enjoyment.

Vasant Panchami is celebrated in North India on the fifth day of the Indian month Magh ( January – February ), the first day of spring.

Magh Slécht ( pronounced Maw shlaykht ) is the name of an historic plain in Ireland.

It was originally named Magh Senaig ( the plain of the hill-slope ) and under this guise is mentioned in The Metrical Dindshenchas in the story of the Dagda, Corrgenn and Ailech, wherein it states the Corrgenn travelled from Tara to Lough Foyle in the Inishowen peninsula via Mag Senaig.

In Pre-Christian times the small area where the Crom Cruaich idol stood at Kilnavert was originally named Fossa Slécht or Rath Slécht and it is from this small location that the wider Magh Slécht area received its name.

This day is celebrated in Punjab as Lohri and in Assam as Magh Bihu / Bhogali Bihu.

In some parts of India, Saraswati Puja is celebrated in the month of Magh ; in others, during the final three days of Navratri.

Cath Maige Tuired ( modern spelling: Cath Maighe Tuireadh ), meaning " The Battle of Magh Tuireadh ", is the name of two saga texts of the Mythological Cycle of Irish mythology.

The name Mag Tuired ( modern spelling: Magh Tuireadh ) means " plain of pillars " or " plain of towers ", and is anglicised as Moytura or Moytirra.

This day is celebrated by Brahmos as Maghotsab ( ম া ঘ ো ৎসব Maghotshôb " Magh celebration ").

Moylurg is, in Irish, Magh Luirg an Dagda, the plain of the tracks of the Dagda.

Moville ( Magh Bhile or Bun an Phobail in Irish, having the same etymology as Movilla Abbey ) is a town and coastal resort on the Inishowen Peninsula of County Donegal, Ireland, close to the northern tip of the island of Ireland.

Paul Walsh stated that " The celebrated Dubhaltach MacFhirbhisigh ... informs us that the O Duigenans followed the profession of historiographers under the families of Clann Mhaiolruanaidh and Conmhaicne in Magh Rein, that is, with the Mac Dermotts and the MacDonoughs in the west, and with the O Farrells in the territory of Annaly.

Magh () is the 10th month in the Bengali calendar.

They worship, sing and dance on Magh Purnima falls sometime in the month of February, which is considered to be a holy period in this region.

It starts in Magh Shukla Gyaras and Magh Krishna Panchami ( peak period of this fair is Magh Purnima ).

Led by their king, Nuada, they fought the First Battle of Magh Tuireadh on the west coast, in which they defeated and displaced the native Fir Bolg, who then inhabited Ireland.

According to an Irish dinsenchas (" place-lore ") poem in the 12th century Book of Leinster, Crom Cruach's cult image, consisting of a gold figure surrounded by twelve stone figures, stood on Magh Slécht (" the plain of prostration ") in County Cavan, and was propitiated with first-born sacrifice in exchange for good yields of milk and grain.

In 1975, Mala — a shortening of Magh nAla — was among the first Irish placenames adopted by statute, on the advice of the Placenames branch of the Ordnance Survey of Ireland.

After reigning for seventy-seven years ( or 100 years according to the Book of Fenagh, P 23 ), he and three-quarters of the men of Ireland died on Magh Slécht while worshipping Crom Cruach, a cruel deity propitiated with human sacrifice.

Notable fairs include Magh Mela, held on the 14 January and Jhanda Mela in March, a fair for the Sikh community that attracts Sikhs from all over India and abroad.

Titu Mir was born as Syed Mir Nisar Ali on 27 January 1782 ( 14 Magh 1182 in Bengali calendar ), in Chandpur village, in North 24 Parganas district ( currently in West Bengal, India ).

The Basua on first Baisakh, the Patroru on first Bhadon, the Sair on first Assuj, the Lohri on first Magh, and the Dholru on first Chet are the fairs they celebrate.

* Suryavrata, a festival observed by Hindu women, on the first day of Magh.

* Saraswati puja, Hindu festival observed on the fifth lunar day in the month of Magh.

Golwalkar was born on 19 February, 1906 ( Magh Bahul Ekadashi, Vishswavasu Samvat ) at Ramtek near Nagpur, Maharashtra ; the only surviving son of the nine children of his parents: Sadashivrao, a school teacher and Lakshmibai.

" The Munstermen then followed this up with a devastating raid on both Clan Fergal and Magh Seola, for the same annals note that " A great slaughter was made of the Connaughtmen by the men of Munster, wherein Conchobhar Ua Flaithbheartaigh, lord of West Connaught " was slain.

* 726-Gerald, of Magh Eo, died on the 13th of March.

It is held every year on the last Monday of the month of Magh.