Talk:Vera Moray/@comment-6301921-20150121135243/@comment-16533050-20150121193820

This is what I found:

The name seems to fall in-between two other Irish names I could identify:

The modern Scottish version Dougal is an Anglicized form of the Gaelic name Dubhghall, which meant "dark stranger" from dubh "dark" and gall "stranger".

And the modern Scottish Douglas which a an Anglicized form of the Gaelic Dubhghlas, meaning "dark river" from dubh "dark" and glais "water, river". This is the name of a river near Glasgow.

While there are some Irish versions of this name as well, the closest versions are Scottish.

Edit: ah, its already been answered. -sigh- Late to the party as usual.