Saints in Scottish Place-Names
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Meigle, parish
Grid reference
NO 287 446 (accurate position)
Six-figure easting & northing
328700 744600
Latitude
56.58800966644833
Longitude
-3.161049399070069
Nearby places
Ninian's Moss, Eassie & Nevay (1.49 miles)
Nevay, former parish, Eassie & Nevay (1.58 miles)
Lady Well, Alyth (1.84 miles)
Newtyle, parish (2.18 miles)
Braideston, settlement, Airlie (2.55 miles)
Object Classification
Parish (extant in 1975)
Notes
NGR for the modern church, on the site of the medieval church, where a late medieval baptismal font and several pictish symbol stones, cross-slabs etc. survive.
Parish TLA
MEI
County
Perthshire
Medieval diocese
dunkeld
Names
1 head-name linked to this place ?Meigle
Historic formMicghel Head nameMeigle PlaceMeigle, parish Certainty that this name applies to this placeCertain SourceRRS ii, no. 201 Date of citation1178 x 1185 Feature named in sourcechurch |
Source code
RRS ii
Source title
Regesta Regum Scottorum, the Acts of William I
Editors
G. W. S. Barrow
Year
1971
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