English / Map Form: Duirinish
Gaelic Form: Diùranais
Location: Skye, Inner Hebrides
Post Town: ISLE OF SKYE
County: Inverness-shire
Local Authority: Highland
Nearest Main Roads: A87
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’.Element Meaning
ON dýr ~ deer; nes ~ promontory
Sources
| Dyurenes | 1572 RMS iv no. 2093 |
| ?? Urmes (vel Dyurmas) | 1585 Retours (Inverness) no. 9 |
| Duirnes | 1626 Retours (Inverness) no. 45 |
| Dairnes (vel Duirnes) | 1655 Retours (Inverness) no. 79 |
| Duirness | 1664 Retours (Inverness) no. 95 |
| Durneis | 1681 RPS [1681/7/155] |
| Durinish | 1820 Thomson |
| Diurinnis | Dwelly 1912 |
| N dyra-nes deer’s headland | Watson 1904, 188 |
| Diùrinis | previous signage |
| [“dʲuːrə,nɪʃ] | local source, Sgianaidean |
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.