English / Map Form: Drongan
Gaelic Form: An Dronnan
Post Town: AYR
Postcode area: KA6
County: Ayrshire
Local Authority: East Ayrshire
English / Map Form: Drongan
Gaelic Form: An Dronnan
Element Meaning
dronn ‘ridge, hump’ + an
Sources
Drongane 1544-1545 ER 18, appendix
Drowgone Roy Lowlands [for Drongone?]
Drongan 1750 Dorret
“Dron Hill is dronn, a hump ; compare Dron, a hill in Longforgan parish, Perth” Watson 1926, 139
There is a Drongan in Galloway, which are now Dronnan. Perhaps also seen in Loch Drunkie which is Drongaidh, as well as Beinn Dronaig.
