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 name

Element 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.