English / Map Form: Don River
Gaelic Form: Uisge Deathan
Location: Aberdeenshire
Post Town: ABERDEEN
County: Aberdeenshire
Local Authority: Aberdeenshire
English / Map Form: Don River
Gaelic Form: Uisge Deathan
Language Notes
Sources
in Gaelic the Don is Deathan, rising in Coire Dheathan, and flowing through Srath Deathan, Strathdon.: Watson 1926, 211
Deathan: Watson in Dwelly
Dé’n, open e. Strathdon Strath-dheathain, generally spoken of as Oir Dheathan: Diack, Inscriptions, p. 182
Dēn, Tshēn , Strathdon is stra-dēn, stra-yen. Donside, orr-yen Diack MS2276
Uisge Dheathain: Place-names of the Cairngorm Parks
