English / Map Form: Dumfries
Gaelic Form: Dùn Phris
Location: Dumfries and Galloway
Post Town: DUMFRIES
County: -- Select a county --
Local Authority: Dumfries and Galloway
English / Map Form: Dumfries
Gaelic Form: Dùn Phris
Language Notes
Element Meaning
G dùn ~ hill-fort; preas ~ thicket
Sources
dun-fris: Dieckhoff
Chunna mi Dun-Phris ‘us Cataobh: An Duanaire, 1868, 46 [I saw Dumfries and Sutherland]
