English / Map Form: Duror
Gaelic Form: Dùrar
Location: Lochaber, Highland
Post Town: APPIN
Postcode area: PA38
County: Inverness-shire
Local Authority: Argyll & Bute
Nearest Main Roads: A828
English / Map Form: Duror
Gaelic Form: Dùrar
Language Notes
Perhaps OG adj. dùr, ‘hard’ + lenited nom. sg. dobhar, masc. ‘water’ = ‘hard water’.Element Meaning
G dùr ~ hard; dobhar ~ water
Sources
| Durroure | 1501 RMS ii no. 2565 |
| Durrour | c. 1620 Pont text 85v |
| Abhainn Duror = Avon Durgur | c. 1620 Pont text 85v |
| Durror | c. 1590 Pont map 13 |
| Durgoure | 1630 Geog. Coll. ii, 157 |
| Durrour | 1654 Blaeu Map (Breadalbane) |
| Dùror na h-Apunn | Watson 1926, 124 |
| Dùrar | AK |
Additional Information
This is an established name.
Cf. Abhainn Dhùbhrair Robertson for genitive form.
