Dunbarrow, a detached south-eastern section of Dunnichen parish, Forfarshire, bounded on the SE by Carmylie, and on all other sides by Kirkden, a strip of which, hardly a furlong broad at the narrowest, separates it from Dunnichen proper. With utmost length and breadth of 1¾ and 1 mile, it rises in all directions to a hill-summit (500 feet) of its own name, on which are some vestiges of an ancient fort.

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