English / Map Form: Dunlop
Gaelic Form: Dùn Lob
Post Town: KILMARNOCK
Postcode area: KA3
County: Ayrshire
Local Authority: East Ayrshire
English / Map Form: Dunlop
Gaelic Form: Dùn Lob
Language Notes
Element Meaning
Sources
| Dounlap | 1287 Glasg. Reg | |
| Dunlap (Dullope) | 1296 Hist Rep? | |
| Dunlop | 1265 (1469) Pais. Reg. | |
| Dullope | 1296 Ragman Roll | |
| Dunlopp | 1296 Ragman Roll | |
| Dunlop | 1451 RMS | |
| Dunlopp | 1451 APS | |
| Dunlop | 1478 RMS | |
| Dunlop | 1468 Glasg. Reg | |
| Dunlopp | 1476 St Mary Lib | |
| Hill de Dunlope | 1502 ER | |
| Dunlophill | 1505 ER | |
| Dunloppy | 1512 TA | |
| Dunlap | 1535 ER | |
| Dunlope | 1591 ER | |
| Dunlophill | 1605 RSS |
Additional Information
Dun-lopor Dun-luib, signifying, in Gaelic, “a winding or circuitous hill”: OSA
Black p. 230 gives several early forms for this as the surname (which derives from the place-name) and early forms are Dunlape, Dunloup, Dalape. “About the middle of last century the name was locally pronounced Delap or Dulap.” Thomas Clancy however in personal communication says he has seen no evidence for this pronunciation.
Although the form of lùib as a ‘loop’ is proposed, it is difficult to see what this refers to. Lob,’puddle’ fits better phonologically and semantically.
