English / Map Form: Auchindoir
Gaelic Form: Achadh an Tòrr
Post Town: HUNTLY
Postcode area: AB54
County: Aberdeenshire
Local Authority: Aberdeenshire
English / Map Form: Auchindoir
Gaelic Form: Achadh an Tòrr
Sources
achintōr: Diack MS2276
achin-tōr: Diack, Inscriptions
See Alexander 152.
Dauendor 1236 Mor. Reg.
ecclesia de Dauendor’ 1245×55 Arb. Lib. i, 242
ecclesi[a] de Dauachendor 1270×79 Abdn. Reg. ii, 52 [12 merks]
Dauachyndore 1361 Abdn. Reg. i 89
Additional Information
This name has clearly been reanalysed at some point between the earliest forms being recorded, and the recording of Diack’s pronunciation.