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’.
