English / Map Form: Dounreay
Gaelic Form: Dùnrath
Post Town: THURSO
Postcode area: KW14
County: Sutherland
Local Authority: Highland
English / Map Form: Dounreay
Gaelic Form: Dùnrath
Sources
Dù(n)rath: Watson in MacBain, x
Du(n)răth (accent on first) (Dùra’ u nasal) Watson notebook CW9
“Dùnrath, Dounreay, which may mean ‘fort-rath,’ with reference to a
broch near it” Watson 1926, p. 118
Dùnrath [dùra] (stress on (nasalised) first syllable): S. Grannd
