Dunning

Dùnainn

Meaning

fort-place

Settlement

Location

Perthshire

Perth and Kinross

PH2

NO016142

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

 

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.

Alternative Forms