Dara, a rivulet in the NW of Aberdeenshire. It rises on the southern confines of Aberdour parish, and, bearing for some distance the name of Idoch Water, runs 10 miles south-westward, past Newbyth and Cuminestown, till, making a bend near the middle of Turriff parish, it thence runs 3 miles north-westward to the Deveron, a little below Turriff town.—Ord. Sur., sh. 86,1876.

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