Dollar
Dollar (population 2,877) is a small town with a population of 2,800 people in Clackmannanshire, Scotland. It is 12 miles East of Stirling. Dollar was once a place of residence of Mary, Queen of Scots. Possible interpretations are that Dollar is originated from Doilleir, an Irish and also Scots Gaelic word meaning dark and also bleak, or from numerous words in Pictish: 'Dol' (area) + 'Ar' (cultivable) or Dol (valley) + Ar (high). One more derivation is from Dolar, 'haugh place' (cf Welsh dôl 'meadow'. This word was obtained from British or Pictish 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 'location'. An additional theory, connected to Castle Campbell's alternative name of Castle Gloom, is that it stems from Scots-French "Doleur", implying despair.