English / Map Form: Dunning
Gaelic Form: Dùnainn
Post Town: PERTH
Postcode area: PH2
County: Perthshire
Local Authority: Perth and Kinross
English / Map Form: Dunning
Gaelic Form: Dùnainn
Language Notes
Element Meaning
Sources
Dunyn, Innerdunnyn c. 1591 Pont map 21
Innerdunning 1751 Macfarlane Geog. Coll. Vol 1 p119
Dunning is on Dunning Burn, at foot is Innerdunning. See A Watson’s thesis, early forms in Donin etc. The -yn suffix does not appear to be the locational one, as it is in existence well into the late medieval and modern era.
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