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The Daugh, Davoch or Davach is an ancient Scottish land measurement. All of these terms are corruptions of the Scottish Gaelic Dabhach. The word Dabh or “Damh” means an ox. It is thought that the measurement is of Pictish origins, and is most common in the north east, and often absent in the south of Scotland. It is particularly common in various placenames to this day, often in the form "Daugh of Invermarkie" etc. The name "Haddo" is also corruption of “Hauf Daugh”, or half-Davoch, in turn a translation of “leth-dhabhach”. Royal motto: Nemo me impune lacessit (English: No one provokes me with impunity) Scotlands location within the United Kingdom Languages English, Gaelic, Scots Capital Edinburgh Largest city Glasgow First Minister Jack McConnell Area - Total - % water Ranked 2nd UK 78,782 km² 1. ...
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The Picts inhabited Caledonia (Scotland), north of the River Forth. ...
Scottish land measurements to be based on how much livestock they could support. This was particularly important in a country where fertility would vary widely. In the east a daugh would be a portion of land that could support 60 cattle or oxen. MacBain reckoned the daugh to be “either one or four ploughgates, according to locality and land”. A ploughgate contains about 100 Scots acres (5.3 km²). Sheep are commonly bred as livestock. ...
Binomial name Bos taurus Linnaeus, 1758 Cattle are domesticated ungulates, a member of the subfamily Bovinae of the family Bovidae. ...
A Scottish acre (Scottish Gaelic: acair) was a land measurement used in the country. ...
Watson, in The Placenames of Ross & Cromarty says, “usually four ploughgates”. Skene in Celtic Scotland says: William Forbes Skene (1809–1892), Scottish historian and antiquary, was the second son of Sir Walter Scotts friend, James Skene (1775–1864), of Rubislaw, near Aberdeen, and was born on June 7 1809. ...
- “in the eastern district there is a uniform system of land denomination consisting of ‘dabhachs’, ‘ploughgates’ and ‘oxgangs’, each ‘dabhach’ consisting of four ‘ploughgates’ and each ‘ploughgate’ containing eight ‘oxgangs’.
- “As soon as we cross the great chain of mountains separating the eastern from the western waters, we find a different system equally uniform. The ‘ploughgates’ and ‘oxgangs’ disappear, and in their place we find dabhachs and ‘pennylands’. The portion of land termed a ‘dabhach’ is here also called a tirung or 'ounceland', and each ‘dabhach’ contains 20 pennylands.”
The “Pennyland” is thought to be of Norse origin, so it is possible that Norse and native systems were conflated in the west. Norse is related to Scandinavia, and may mean: Ancient Norse mythology Medieval Norsemen, i. ...
Prof. MacKinnon in Place and Personal Names of Argyll says,
- “In Pictland the unit of land measure was the ‘dabhach’, a unit which properly denotes a liquid measure. An old farmer in Western Gaeldom frequently speaks of his fields, not as containing so many acres of land, but as ‘the sowing of so many bolls of oats’, ‘the bed of so many barrels of potatoes’ &c. Accordingly, from a measure of capacity, ‘dabhach’ came early to be used as a measure of land surface. In Gaeldom, where arable land is scant and scattered, the variations in the acreage, of particular ‘dabhachs’ or ‘ounces’ must have been very great, still the extent of land represented by these terms seems to have been, as a rule, about 104 Scots acres, or 120 English acres” (547,000 m²)
The lexicographer Jamieson claimed that a daugh was enough to produce about 48 bolls, and averaged an area of approximately 1 1/2 miles² (3.9 km²). Binomial name Avena sativa Carolus Linnaeus (1753) The Oat (Avena sativa) is a species of cereal grain, and the seeds of this plant. ...
Barrel can refer to: Barrels for storage; especialy Barrels for aging alcoholic beverages. ...
Binomial name Solanum tuberosum L. The potato (plural form: potatoes) (Solanum tuberosum) is a perennial plant of the Solanaceae, or nightshade, family, grown for its starchy tuber. ...
The ounce is the name for a number of different units of mass (oz), and also of two units of fluid volume (fl oz) and of one unit of force, the ounce-force (ozf). ...
Daughs are referred to in the Book of Deer, and were recorded as being in use in the late 18th century in Invernessshire. In some areas, a quarter of a daugh was a “ploughgate”, and an eighth an “ochdamh”. Folio 29v contains a portrait of the Evangelist Luke. ...
Inverness-shire is one of the traditional counties of Scotland. ...
Reference
Dwelly’s [Scottish] Gaelic Dictionary 1911: (Dabhach) with corrections and additions
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