Language Notes

Sources

terrarum de Doill 1564 RSS v 1704
Doill 1566 RSS v 2718
terras de Doill x 3 1566 Sutherland Charters 103
Dowell, terrarum de Doly, Dola 1563 RSS v 1463
Dola 1654 Blaeu Map Southerlandia

‘Doll G., old form in charters, Doill, corruption of dail, meadow, or plain, bounded by a river. This plain, upon which scores of crofters are located, is bounded by the Brora River’ MacKay, 1892, 338
an Dail Robertson Collection MS359a, 78
‘the Doll,’ G. an Dail, in Strathbrora’ Watson 1926, 415

Additional Information

dalach is by far the most common genitive, but cf. nearby Cnoc an Dail Bhric (NC729164).

Doll Bridge ~ Drochaid na Dalach

Alternative Forms