Sources

Dalganros 1444 (ER v, 171)

Dalganrosse 1456 (ER vi, 277)

Dalginross 1465 (ER vii, 325)

Dalginros (east); Dalginros (west): c. 1591 Pont map 21 (2)

Easter, Wester Dalginross 1802 Land Tax rolls for Perthshire vol 3

aig Dealg-an-rois x2: Seumas MacDhiarmaid ‘Clach-neirt-Shamsoin Both-Chaisteil, Calasraid’ People’s Journal 24.6.1911 [Native speaker of Gaelic from Callander]

Dail gun ròs (??): Diack MS2771/1 1917 [Diack’s question marks!]

See also A. Watson’s ‘Place-names, land and lordship in the medieval earldom of Strathearn’ p. 307. He offers equal stress on the first and last syllables. The earliest forms he offers are: Dalganros 1444 (ER v, 171); Dalganrosse 1456 (ER vi, 277); Dalginross 1465 (ER vii, 325).

“…given the presence on Dalginross estate of the probable judicial site Dalginross Court Knowe+ (see next) or Dun Mhoid+ (q.v. below), Simon Taylor’s analysis of Dalginch (Markinch parish, Taylor 1995, 293) may well be relevant here. Taylor explains this place-name as dealg innis ‘thorn inch’, “a piece of land marked out from its surroundings by a thorn-hedge, with reference to the area within which legal proceedings would take place”” p. 307

Additional Information

Dealganros, -Delginross, .Dalcross (Inverness, Strathearn,        and Glentilt), ‘prickle-point,’ or ‘prickle-wood.’ Watson, Topographical Varia vi,

“The position of Delcros, where the peasant reaped in the beginning of August barley that had been sown in mid June, is uncertain. O’Donnell puts it near Derry in Ireland, but from the heading of the chapter in Adamnan it must have been in Scotland. In modern Gaelic it would be Dealgros, ‘Prickle-point,’ either from its shape or from prickly shrubs growing on it. There was a place in Kintyre whose name is given in the genitive as Delgon, but this is probably too far from Iona to suit the story. The old name of the point of land at the junction of Earn and Tay was Rindalgros,

‘Point of Dealgros,’ now Rhynd. The name Dealganros, ‘Prickle-point,’ occurs at least thrice : (1) at Comrie in Strathearn; (2) near Blair Athol; (3) near Inverness,

where it is anglicised Dalcross.” Watson 1926, 93