Saints in Scottish Place-Names
Funded by a Leverhulme Trust Project Grant
Killearn, parish STL
Grid reference
NS 522 858 (accurate position)
Six-figure easting & northing
252200 685800
Latitude
56.04227808946
Longitude
-4.372887275677509
Nearby places
Killearn, settlement, Killearn (0.12 miles)
Blane Water, Strathblane & Killearn (1.05 miles)
Blaneswell, settlement Killearn (1.55 miles)
St Vildrin's Well, Drymen (1.92 miles)
Chapelcroft of St Mackessog, Drymen (2.26 miles)
Object Classification
Parish (extant in 1975)
Is linear feature?
No
Notes
NGR for Killearn Old Parish Church, built in 1734; but there are earlier grave-stones at the site, including three possibly medieval stones (NMRS; Canmore ID: 44593)
Relationships with other places
Contains Blane Water, Strathblane & Killearn
Contains Blaneswell, settlement Killearn
Contains Kilewnan Burn, Fintry/Killearn
Contains Killearn, settlement, Killearn
Contains Killearn, settlement, Killearn
Contains Kilmannan, ~eccles., Killearn
Contains Kilmannan, ~eccles., Killearn
Contains Kilmannan, settlement, Killearn
Parish TLA
KLN
County
Stirlingshire
Medieval diocese
Glasgow
Names
1 head-name linked to this place ?Killearn
Head name
Killearn
Place
Killearn, parish STL
Certainty that this name applies to this place
Certain
The status of this name is
Current
Is this a current OS form? ?
No
Is this the original referent of the place?
No
Is the association of this name to this object hypothetical?
No
Kyllern 1426, Glas. Reg.
Historic formKyllern Head nameKillearn PlaceKillearn, parish STL Certainty that this name applies to this placeCertain SourceGlas. Reg., no. 340 Date of citation1426 x 1446 |
Source code
Glas. Reg.
Source title
Registrum Episcopatus Glasguense
Killerne 1560, Assumption
Historic formKillerne Head nameKillearn PlaceKillearn, parish STL Certainty that this name applies to this placeCertain SourceAssumption, 554 Date of citation1560 x 1570 |
Source code
Assumption
Source title
The Books of Assumption of the Thirds of Benefices: Scottish Ecclesiastical Rentals at the Reformation
Editors
J. Kirk
Series
Records of Social and Economic History, New Series, 21
Year
1995
Place-name data
The place-name data featured in this resource is copyright of the University of Glasgow.
Map Layers
The map interface was produced using the Leaflet.js library. Attribution for the base layers is as follows:
Default map:
Tiles © Esri — Esri, DeLorme, NAVTEQ, TomTom, Intermap, iPC, USGS, FAO, NPS, NRCAN, GeoBase, Kadaster NL, Ordnance Survey, Esri Japan, METI, Esri China (Hong Kong), and the GIS User Community
Satellite map:
Tiles © Esri — Source: Esri, i-cubed, USDA, USGS, AEX, GeoEye, Getmapping, Aerogrid, IGN, IGP, UPR-EGP, and the GIS User Community
Satellite map with labels:
Base map data © OpenStreetMap contributors, CC-BY-SA, Imagery © Mapbox
Modern OS map:
Ordnance Survey OpenData. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right (2010)
OS 1840-1880 map:
National Library of Scotland Historic Maps
OS 1920-1933 map:
National Library of Scotland Historic Maps
