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| The placename literally means 'the small church of Davnet' and refers to the 7th Century saint Dympna who built a small church here. |
| The placename may reflect worship of Thor there by Danes during the Viking Age rather than by Angles during the Roman Iron Age. |
| Scotia is a Latin placename derived from Scoti, a Latin name for the Gaels. |
| Wikipedia has a fuller, highly amusing list of counterintuitive placename pronunciations. |
| One interpretation of the placename is that it means 'green river' as in the Welsh river named Irfon. |
