English / Map Form: Dailly
Gaelic Form: Dail Chiarain
County: Ayrshire
Local Authority: South Ayrshire
English / Map Form: Dailly
Gaelic Form: Dail Chiarain
Language Notes
Element Meaning
Sources
“Dailly, the name of a parish in Carrick, is Dalmakerane 1323 (RMS), Dalmulkerane 1404 (Chart, of Crossraguel), for Dail Mhaoil-Chiaran, ‘ Holme of St. Ciaran’s servant.’” Watson 1926, 417
Additional Information
See here for discussion an analysis of this name. It appears that Watson’s early forms represent a different place from the settlement of Dailly.
