English / Map Form: Deveron River
Gaelic Form: Uisge Dubh-Èireann
Location: Aberdeenshire
Post Town: MACDUFF
County: Aberdeenshire
Local Authority: Aberdeenshire
English / Map Form: Deveron River
Gaelic Form: Uisge Dubh-Èireann
Language Notes
Element Meaning
Sources
formerly Duffhern, i.e. Dubh Eireann: Diack Place-names of Pictland, 1, 131 [not a form recorded from an informant]
‘Black Erin’: Watson 2001 (1920), 151
Deveron… meaning apparently ‘Black Èire,’ as distinguished from ‘White Èire,’ or Findhorn, but unfortunately the name does not survive in Gaelic: Watson 1926, 230
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