The Meaning of Many Local Place Names Around Crieff
Some Place Names of Strathearn School of Scottish Studies University of Edinburgh I recently came across a copy of a letter given to me some time ago by Anthony Murray of Dollerie by Crieff . It was sent to him away back in 1991 by Ian Fraser of the School of Scottish Studies at The University of Edinburgh . Mr Fraser had looked at various place names in the Strathearn area as a follow up to a talk given by him to an unnamed organisation in the town . I replicate below the details of his research which were contained in the communication . “ Dollerie has fairly consistent spellings in Dol and Dul , so I assume that it contained dail (O.W. dul , dol ) ‘water meadow ‘ , ‘haugh ‘ as the main element . The form Dowlarich however , which you quote as being in the 1500s may not be such a misleading form after all . This is clearly dubh-larich ‘ black foundation ‘, from larach ‘ foundation of a house ‘ , ‘footing ‘ .This would s