English / Map Form: Duirinish
Gaelic Form: Diùranais
Location: Plockton
County: Inverness-shire
Local Authority: Highland
English / Map Form: Duirinish
Gaelic Form: Diùranais
Language Notes
ON dýra-nes gen. pl. of ON dýr, neut. ‘deer’ + ON nom. sg. nes, neut. ‘promontory’ = ‘promontory of deer’.Sources
| Durris | 1548 RMS iv, no. 204 | |
| Durnes | 1554 RMS iv, no. 969 | |
| Durines | 1633 Retours (Ross) 79 | |
| Dewrnes | 1574 RMS iv, no. 2270 | |
| Dewrnes | 1574 RMS iv, no. 2274 | |
| Durinische | 1607 RMS vi, no. 1879 | |
| Durines | 1691 Retours (Ross) | 152 |
Additional Information
Cf. Watson 1904, 188. This is the same name as Durinish in Skye and Durness in Sutherland for which the proposed form is the same. The current sign on the A87 says Diùrinis which is clearly wrong.
