![River Dulnain downstream of the bridge in Dulnain Bridge](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/89/River_Dulnain_downstream_of_the_bridge_in_Dulnain_Bridge._-_geograph.org.uk_-_1192730.jpg)
The River Dulnain (
Gaelic
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: ''Tuilnean / Abhainn Tuilnein'') is a major left bank tributary of the
River Spey in northeast
Scotland
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. It rises in the eastern part of the
Monadhliath Mountains
The Monadhliath Mountains , or Monadh Liath, are a range of mountains in Scotland. Monadh Liath is Scottish Gaelic, and means "grey mountain range". Running in a northeast to southwest direction, it lies on the western side of Strathspey, to the we ...
() and flows in a generally northeastward direction through uninhabited country to Sluggan, where it is crossed by
Sluggan Bridge, constructed by
General Wade to carry a
military road. (The route now forms a part of Route 7 of the
National Cycle Network.) Turning more easterly, the Dulnain passes beneath the modern
A9 road which bypasses
Carrbridge, the mainline railway and, in Carrbridge itself, the
packhorse bridge that gives the village its name and the bridge carrying the
B9153 road (former A9). The final section flowing east-northeast to the village of
Dulnain Bridge is accompanied by the
A938 road. The river empties into the Spey () after passing beneath the
A95 road
The A95 road is a major road of north-east Scotland connecting the A9 road in the Highlands to the A98 road near the coast.
Route
It leaves the A9 four miles north of Aviemore.
It then goes:
*through Drumullie;
*near to Dulnain Bridge – ...
and the disused bridge of the former
Strathspey railway.
Etymology
The name derives from the Scottish Gaelic ''tuil'' which means flood and ''ean'' which means stream and is perhaps descriptive of its reaction to rainfall.
[Ross, D. 2001 ''Scottish Place-names'', Birlinn, Edinburgh]
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