English / Map Form: Dunstaffnage
Gaelic Form: Dùn Staidhinis
Location: Argyll
Post Town: OBAN
County: Argyll & Bute
Local Authority: Argyll & Bute
English / Map Form: Dunstaffnage
Gaelic Form: Dùn Staidhinis
Element Meaning
G nom. sg. dùn, masc. ‘fort’ + gen. sg. of en ON Staidhinis
Sources
| Ardstofniche | 1322 Breadalbane Inventory (via OPS II, 1, 114) |
| Ardscodinche | 1328 RMS v, 26 |
| Dunstaffynche | 1366 RMS i, 233 |
| Dunstaffynch | 1368 RMS i, 233 |
| Dunstafage | 14th C RMS i, App 2, 353 |
| Dunstaffage | 1540 RMS iii, 2305 |
| Dustaffage | 1542 RMS iii, 2814 |
| Dun-staidh-innis | 1885 Campbell, Records of Argyll, 11 |
| Dun sta’nis | Henderson 1910, 160 |
| dùn sta(fh)innis | Potts 2001, 41 |
|
Dun-sta-inis |
Watson 2001 (1907), 78 |