| Dunn |
 Scottish World Tartan Register No. 3133 Such systems had been in use throughout Scotland from much earlier times, and Dun or Dunn, from the Gaelic ‘dun’ meaning mound, fortified hill or castle, is one of the most common pre-fixes for place-names throughout Scotland eg Dunedin (the gaelic name for Edinburgh), Dundee, Dunkeld, Dunblane, Dundonld, Dunfermline, etc. At a time when English was superseding gaelic as the main language in Scotland, and before written records were common-place, gaelic names such as Iain a duin’, meaning John from the dun, would have been interpreted and written simply as John Dun or John Dunn. In the remnants of the Gaeltacht, that area of Scotland where gaelic is still in common us),, sadly now limited to the Hebridean Islands and parts of the north-west mainland, there are still people called by the ancient gaelic surname a’duin. The colours of the Dunn family tartan are taken from the ancient family crest which depicts a griffin in GOLD, wings and talons outstretched on a knighted shield of AZURE, in a field of DARK BLUE, with the family motto inscribed below in a wreathed ribbon of WHITE. The family motto of DUNN is MULLAC A BOO’, a corruption of the gaelic expression ‘Am mullach dh’n na duin’ meaning ‘Victory for the Dunns’ Commissioned in 2000 by friends of Rona Dunn of Edinburgh for her 50th. birthday. The official tartan for Dunn’s, Dun’s, or Dunne’s everywhere. Associated Links |
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