sentences:  The term does not suggest a hill or mound site, being derived from the Gaelic term 'comhdhail', a place of assembly.Such assemblies were non-seignoral burlaw courts and dealt with minor disputes.Francis Grose in 1797 published his 'Antiquities of Scotland', and going from the 1789 date of the numerous engravings this was a little over forty years from the abolition of this aspect of the feudal system.