Drummore
An Druim Mòr
Meaning
the large ridge
Location
Dumfriesshire
Dumfries and Galloway
DG9
NX134367
English / Map Form: Drummore
Gaelic Form: An Druim Mòr
Location: Dumfries & Galloway
Post Town: STRANRAER
Postcode area: DG9
County: Dumfriesshire
Local Authority: Dumfries and Galloway
English / Map Form: Drummore
Gaelic Form: An Druim Mòr
Language Notes
Element Meaning
G druim ~ back, ridge; mòr ~ big
Sources
Drain-moir 1654 Blaeu
Druim mór, big ridge’. The ridge in question is Knockinree, cnoc an fhraoich, ‘hill of the heather’.: MacQueen, Place-names in the Rhinns of Galloway and Luce Valley, 84
DRUMMÒRE (P. Druimmoir). ‘Kirkmaiden.’ Druim mór, great ridge. Cf. DRUMORE, and, in Ireland, Dromore. (Maxwell 1887: 170)
