English / Map Form: Dunblane
Gaelic Form: Dùn Bhlàthain
Location: Stirlingshire
Post Town: DUNBLANE
County: Stirlingshire
Local Authority: Stirling
English / Map Form: Dunblane
Gaelic Form: Dùn Bhlàthain
Element Meaning
G dùn ~ hill(fort); Blàthan ~ Blane, personal name
Sources
| Dun Bhlathain, dun-vLa:hin’ | Dieckhoff |
| Dùn Bhlathainn | Mark |
| Dun-Blathain | Robertson MS |
| Dun Blathain | Watson in Dwelly |
| a Dhun-blathan | 1906 Sinton’s Poetry of Badenoch |
Additional Information
See Watson 1926, pp. 164-5.