Dalmarnock
Dail Meàrnaig
Meaning
riverside meadow of Meàrnaig
Location
Perthshire
Perth and Kinross
NN995458
English / Map Form: Dalmarnock
Gaelic Form: Dail Meàrnaig
Location: Perth & Kinross
Post Town: DUNKELD
County: Perthshire
Local Authority: Perth and Kinross
English / Map Form: Dalmarnock
Gaelic Form: Dail Meàrnaig
Language Notes
Now understood as: nom. sg. G dail, fem. ‘riverside meadow’ + gen. sg. Meàrnaig, saint’s nameElement Meaning
G dail ~ riverside meadow + G Meàrnaig ~ saint’s name
Sources
Dulmonych c. 1198 x | 1203 RRS ii pp. 340-1 |
Dunmernoch | 1236 Lind. Cart. no. 22 |
terra de Dulmernok minore | 1383 RMS i no. 729 |
Dalmurnech | 1174 Glas. Reg. i, 32 |
Dalmornoc | 1186 Glas. Reg. i, 62 |
Dalmarnock | 1747-55 Roy |
Dalmarnock | 1795 Richardson |
Dulmarnock | 1773 Ross |
Dal màrnag? Robertson Collection MS 372, 158
Additional Information
There is another in Strathtay.
A number of places in Scotland contain this specific, which in at least some cases, is a saint’s name, now Meàrnaig, from Mo Ernoc. See Kilmarnock Cill Mhearnaig Watson 1926, 187 and Ardmarnock and Inchmarnock Watson 1926, 291. Although Watson spells this without the strac, it is spelt elsewhere as Meàrnaig. This is also suggested by Taylor 2007, 7 who supplied the two earliest forms. Given the lack of forms for the Rutherglen Dalmarnock, the parallel of the Strathtay name has been taken, for which we have Dail Meàrnaig. The specific in this instance appears not to be lenited; names originally deriving from mo + personal name lenite sporadically.