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Dunfallandy

Dùn Fallandaidh


Settlement

Location

Perthshire

Perth and Kinross

PH16

NN944566


English / Map Form: Dunfallandy

Gaelic Form: Dùn Fallandaidh


Location: Pitlochry

Post Town: PITLOCHRY

Postcode area: PH16

County: Perthshire

Local Authority: Perth and Kinross

Nearest Main Roads: A9

English / Map Form: Dunfallandy

Gaelic Form: Dùn Fallandaidh


Genitive Form: Dhùn Fallandaidh

Sources

Dùn-falandaidh: Watson CW9

Dun-falandaidh: Watson in Dwelly

Dun-fallandaidh; Dun Phallandaidh: Robertson 2019, p. 270

D. fallandaidh: Diack in Robertson letters.

Tom-faLLanti Diack MS2771-1 1919

“Dunfallandy means the Mound of Blood” Highland Tay, 137

Additional Information

The Highland Tay mentions a story, and the derivation is clearly folk etymology, presumably after fala, gen. Sg. of fuil, ‘blood’.

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