Saints in Scottish Place-Names
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Kilmuir, former parish, North Uist
Grid reference
NF 707 705 (accurate position)
Six-figure easting & northing
70700 870500
Latitude
57.604172399283655
Longitude
-7.5145386272005235
County
Inverness-shire
Nearby places
Kilmuir, eccles. North Uist (0 miles)
Cladh Chothain, cemetery, North Uist (0.68 miles)
Kilchalma, eccl. North Uist (0.95 miles)
Eilean Trostain, North Uist (0.98 miles)
Baile Mhàrtainn, North Uist (2.12 miles)
Object Classification
Parish (non-extant in 1975)
Is linear feature?
No
Notes
NGR for the Old Kirk. NMRS records it as built in 1764, on the site of the medieval kirk, its kirkyard containing carved stones of 10th/11th centuries.
Relationships with other parishes
Within North Uist, modern parish
Relationships with other places
Contains Eilean Trostain, North Uist
Contains Kilmuir, eccles. North Uist
Parish details
Kilmuir or Kilmorie in Uist now part of North Uist NUS
Parish TLA
XKU
Medieval diocese
Isles
Parish notes
Known also as Kilmorie in Uist, this was one of the 5 parish kirks of Uist and has been identified with the church of St Mary Alusascal (CPL xi 286; Highland Papers iv, 181; Monro Western Isles, 48-9). The patronage of the church may have been included in a grant of 1372/3, but it appears as a vicarage in 1455, and while it continues thereafter no indication of its status is given, apart from the fact that the bishops of the Isles held their customary third of the revenues of the parsonage (Coll. de Rebus Alban. 10; RMS i no.520). Cowan 1967 The parish probably included the greater part of the island of North Uist, and the smaller islands of Rhona, Gremsay, Illeray, Kirkebost, Husker, Valay, Boreray and Orinsay. The district of Sand [n.e. Uist] now included in the parish of North Uist, formed a separate parsonage. OPS ii (1), 372. [presumably North Uist = combined parishes of Kilmuir XKU & Sand]. Church stood at Kilmuir (apparently the Balchenglish of Blaeu). The present church was built in 1764.[presumbably NF8163] ibid. 373.
Names
1 head-name linked to this place ?Kilmuir
Head name
Kilmuir
Place
Kilmuir, former parish, North Uist
Certainty that this name applies to this place
Certain
The status of this name is
Obsolete
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
Relationships with other place names
Derives from Kilmuir, Kilmuir, eccles. North Uist