English / Map Form: Dunollie
Gaelic Form: Dùn Olla
Location: Argyll
Post Town: OBAN
County: Argyll & Bute
Local Authority: Argyll & Bute
English / Map Form: Dunollie
Gaelic Form: Dùn Olla
Element Meaning
G nom. sg. dùn, masc. ‘fort’ + gen. sg. of Olla(mh), Olaf masc. personal name
Sources
| Dún Ollaig | 686 AU |
| Dún Ollaig | 698 AU |
| Dún Ollaigh | 701 AU |
| Dún Ollaig | 714 AU |
| Dún Ollaig | 734 AU |
| Dunoldiff | 1654 Blaeu Map Braid-Allaban |
| Doun oldyf | 1654 Blaeu Map Lorna |
| Dun-ollaimh | 1912 Dwelly |
| Dun-olla | Robertson Collection MS368, 34 |
| Dún Ollaich (Irish) | Watson 1926, 508 |
| dùn Ollaimh | Potts 2001,41 |
| Dùn Olla | JM |
Additional Information
Whilst this name had a final -mh, modern non-antiquarian Gaelic forms show it without.
