Dull, Perthshire : Historical writing

Descriptive gazetteer entries

These other entries in our collection of descriptive gazetteers are also about Dull. You may be able to find further references to Dull in the descriptive gazetteers by doing a full-text search here.

Place Type of entry Source
Dull parish Bartholomew
Dull a village and a parish Groome

This additional information from our descriptive gazetteers is for locations within the parish or parishes associated with Dull.

Place Type of entry Source
Allean House Bartholomew
Amulree village Bartholomew
Amulree a village Groome
Appin picturesque valley Bartholomew
Bran or Braan Groome
Camserney a burn Groome
Camserney rivulet Bartholomew
Ceannard or Kennard a loch Groome
Ceannard, or Kennard small loch Bartholomew
Derculich an estate, with a mansion Groome
Farragon Hill a mountain Groome
Fincastle Bartholomew
Fincastle a north-eastern district of Dull parish Groome
Grandtully railway station and inn Bartholomew
Grantully Castle a fine old baronial mansion Groome
Kinardochy, Loch Bartholomew
Timmel Bridge hamlet with inn Bartholomew

Travel writing

Sorry, but no mentions of this place can be found.

This website includes two large libraries, of historical travel writing and of entries from nineteenth century gazetteers describing places. We have text from these sources available for these places near your location:

Place Mentioned in Travel Writing Mentioned in Historical Gazetteer
Castle Menzies 1 2
Taymouth 6 2
Weem 0 2
Garth Castle 1 2
Aberfeldy 1 2
Kenmore 3 2
Fortingall 2 2
Acharn 0 2
Foss 0 2
Schiehallion 1 1
Tummel 6 2
Dunalastair 1 2
Loch Tay 9 1
Amulree 0 2
Faskally 1 2
Pitlochry 0 2
Tenandry 0 2
Logierait 0 2
Moulin 0 2
Tayside 3 2

Names from historical writing

The following appear as names for Dull. Follow the links for what the author actually said:

Name Author Source
DULL John Bartholomew Gazetteer of the British Isles (Edinburgh: Bartholomew, 1887).
F.H. Groome Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland (Edinburgh: T.C. Jack, 1882-4).

NB: These variant names come from our collections of historical travel writing and descriptive gazetteers:

  • The above links take you to the first reference to this particular version of the name within a book of travel writing, or to the relevant gazetteer entry.
  • Some names may derive from research by antiquarian writers such as William Camden and Thomas Pennant into the Roman, Saxon and medieval names of places. Their claims are not always supported by modern place-name researchers.
  • References by travel writers to the place using its "normal" name are not included. Descriptive gazetteer entries are included only if the name does not appear anywhere else.