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Dunlop

Dùn Lob


Settlement

Location

Ayrshire

East Ayrshire

KA3

NS411494


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.

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