Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for Dalry, Dalrigh, or Dalree

Dalry, Dalrigh, or Dalree, a place in the W of Killin parish, W Perthshire, near Strathfillan Free church, and 1½ mile SE of Tyndrum station. It was the scene in 1306 of a sharp skirmish between Robert Bruce and Macdougal of Lorn, when the famous Brooch of Lorn, graphically described in Scott's -Lord of the Isles, and said to be still in possession of the Macdougals of Dunolly, was torn from Bruce.


(F.H. Groome, Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland (1882-4); © 2004 Gazetteer for Scotland)

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Feature Description: "a place"   (ADL Feature Type: "populated places")
Administrative units: Killin ScoP       Perthshire ScoCnty
Place names: DALREE     |     DALRIGH     |     DALRY     |     DALRY DALRIGH OR DALREE

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