Daringa / Taringga

Abstract

Taringga (linguistically the same as Daringga in Kaurna language) may have been the Kaurna name for a site at or very near to the old ‘Daringa’ homestead which still stands off Kangarilla Rd next to Oxenberry Farm Wines and the Rail Trail. But this is so only if Tarangga and Taringga were separate names applying to separate places – and there is a high probability that both of the earliest records (‘Tarranga’ and ‘Daringa’) originated from the same word spoken by Kaurna survey guides in 1839.