Dollar
Dollar (population 2,877) is a village with a population of 2,800 individuals in Clackmannanshire, Scotland. It is 12 miles East of Stirling. Dollar was as soon as a place of residence of Mary, Queen of Scots. Possible interpretations are that Dollar is derived from Doilleir, an Irish and Scots Gaelic word meaning dark and also bleak, or from numerous words in Pictish: 'Dol' (area) + 'Ar' (cultivable) or Dol (valley) + Ar (high). An additional derivation is from Dolar, 'haugh location' (cf Welsh dôl 'field'. This word was obtained from British or Pictish right into Scottish Gaelic as dail 'water-meadow, haugh'). John Everett-Heath, in obtains it as 'Location of the Water Meadow' from the Celtic dôl 'water field' and ar 'place'. An additional concept, connected to Castle Campbell's different name of Castle Gloom, is that it originates from Scots-French "Doleur", meaning despair.
