English / Map Form: Dirdhu
Gaelic Form: An Doire Dubh
Post Town: GRANTOWN-ON-SPEY
Postcode area: PH26
County: Inverness-shire
Local Authority: Highland
English / Map Form: Dirdhu
Gaelic Form: An Doire Dubh
Sources
Dirdhu was in Gaelic Doire dubh, black copse or thicket. Derrydow and doirrdhu are forms recorded, bearing out this derivation. Mathieson, Place-names of Strathspey, 230
“Dirdhu, from Doir Dubh, a black or dark grove” MacGregor, Gaelic Place-names in Strathspey, 321
