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Dores

Duras

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Meaning

black wood


Location

Inverness-shire

Highland

NH598346


English / Map Form: Dores

Gaelic Form: Duras


Location: Inverness area, Highland

Post Town: INVERNESS

County: Inverness-shire

Local Authority: Highland

Nearest Main Roads: A82

English / Map Form: Dores

Gaelic Form: Duras


Language Notes

Perhaps originally nom. sg. adj dubh, `black' + nom. sg. ros, `wood' = 'black wood'.

Element Meaning

G dubh ~ black ros ~ wood

Sources

Dubhras 1904-1907 Sinton, 318
Dubhras Watson 1926, 497
Durus Watson 2001 (1909), 159
Duras 2004 MacLean, 72

Additional Information

Sinton: Dubh-ras ‘The black wood’. The second syllable is no mere locative. It is a noun always inflected, as in “Strath Dhubhrais” … mìle o Dhubhras gu Daras, ‘a mile from Dores to Dares.’

This is an obscure name, now thought to derive from the elements above. A number of other derivations are possible, such as doire, ‘thicket’ and is as a suffix. The name was spelt Dubhras, but this may have been an attempt to explain an obscure name. The name is now generally spelled as Duras.

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