English / Map Form: Doll Ford
Gaelic Form: Àth na Dalach
Location: Brora
Post Town: Brora
County: Sutherland
Local Authority: Highland
English / Map Form: Doll Ford
Gaelic Form: Àth na Dalach
Language Notes
Element Meaning
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