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.