Dornock is a small

Scottish Scottish usually refers to something of, from, or related to Scotland, including: *Scottish Gaelic, a Celtic Goidelic language of the Indo-European language family native to Scotland *Scottish English *Scottish national identity, the Scottish ide ...

village in

Dumfries and Galloway Dumfries and Galloway (; ) is one of the 32 unitary council areas of Scotland, located in the western part of the Southern Uplands. It is bordered by East Ayrshire, South Ayrshire, and South Lanarkshire to the north; Scottish Borders to the no ...

, situated about west of

Eastriggs Eastriggs is a small village located in Dumfries and Galloway in the south of Scotland, the village is located around north of the mud and sandbanks of the channel of the River Eden, which extends west into the Solway Firth. Travelling by ro ...

and east of Annan. Dornock is built on land which is above sea level. Dornock Burn runs east of the village and the railway between Annan and Gretna is north of the village. The mud and sand banks of the

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are less than one mile away to the south.

Etymology

The name Dornock is either from

Cumbric Cumbric is an extinct Celtic language of the Brittonic subgroup spoken during the Early Middle Ages in the ''Hen Ogledd'' or "Old North", in Northern England and the southern Scottish Lowlands. It was closely related to Old Welsh and the ot ...

''durn'' + ''-ǭg'' or

Gaelic Gaelic (pronounced for Irish Gaelic and for Scots Gaelic) is an adjective that means "pertaining to the Gaels". It may refer to: Languages * Gaelic languages or Goidelic languages, a linguistic group that is one of the two branches of the Insul ...

''dòrnach'', meaning 'place of handstones (fist-sized stones)', i.e. stones used as projectiles, or perhaps as

cobbles Cobblestone is a natural building material based on cobble-sized stones, and is used for pavement roads, streets, and buildings. Setts, also called ''Belgian blocks'', are often referred to as "cobbles", although a sett is distinct from a ...

. Watson suggests that the in the current pronunciation may imply a

rather than

origin. *See also the remarks in

History

It is famous for the

Battle of Dornock The Battle of Dornock was fought on 25 March 1333 during the Second War of Scottish Independence. Background In 1333 Edward Balliol, a pretender to the throne, claimant to the Scottish throne, sought support from the English King Edward III ...

during the

Wars of Scottish Independence The Wars of Scottish Independence were a series of military campaigns fought between the Kingdom of Scotland and the Kingdom of England in the late 13th and 14th centuries. The First War (1296–1328) began with the English invasion of Scotla ...

. A Solway Parish: A History of Dornock A. Alex. Blaylock (1997?)

Proposed station at Eastriggs

* Eastriggs railway station

References

* Ordnance Survey Landranger Map (number 85) * Ordnance Survey Explorer Map (number 323) - 1:25,000 scale (2.5 inches to 1 mile) * Stapleton Tower house. http://canmore.rcahms.gov.uk/en/site/67010/details/stapleton+tower/ Dornock Parish Church - geograph

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