English / Map Form: Dalry
Gaelic Form: An Dail Fhraoich
Location: North Ayrshire
Post Town: DALRY
County: Ayrshire
Local Authority: North Ayrshire
English / Map Form: Dalry
Gaelic Form: An Dail Fhraoich
Language Notes
G nom. sg. dail, fem. ‘riverside meadow’; possibly gen. sg of G fraoch, masc. 'heather'Element Meaning
G dail ~ riverside meadow + possibly G fraoch ~ heather
Sources
| de Dalri | 1226 Reg. Glas. No. 140 |
| Dalry | 1328 RMS, i, app 2 no. 690 |
| ‘heather dale’ is possible (fraoch old gen. fraoigh) Watson 1926, 144, 200 |
| British dol rug or Gaelic dail fhraoigh Harris p. 209 |
| “‘King’s meadow v. G dail rìgh or ‘heather dale’ v. dail fhraoigh” Dixon, 124 |