English / Map Form: Duntocher
Gaelic Form: Dùn Tòchair
Post Town: CLYDEBANK
Postcode area: G81
County: Dunbartonshire
Local Authority: West Dunbartonshire
English / Map Form: Duntocher
Gaelic Form: Dùn Tòchair
Language Notes
Element Meaning
Sources
Drumfower c. 1273
Drumthouher 1381
Additional Information
If the original meaning was ’causeway’ then Watson 1926, 384 and 486 gives tóchair. It is long in DIL. Dwelly gives tochar, with the source as Armstrong’s Dictionary who supplies it in that form.
The name seems to have originally been Druim Tòchair.
