Dollar
Dollar (population 2,877) is a town 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. Feasible interpretations are that Dollar is stemmed from Doilleir, an Irish as well as Scots Gaelic word meaning dark as well as gloomy, or from numerous words in Pictish: 'Dol' (field) + 'Ar' (arable) or Dol (valley) + Ar (high). An additional derivation is from Dolar, 'haugh location' (cf Welsh dôl 'meadow'. This word was borrowed from British or Pictish right into Scottish Gaelic as dail 'water-meadow, haugh'). John Everett-Heath, in derives it as 'Location of the Water Meadow' from the Celtic dôl 'water field' and ar 'location'. A further concept, linked to Castle Campbell's alternate name of Castle Gloom, is that it comes from Scots-French "Doleur", meaning sadness.
