Saints in Scottish Place-Names
Funded by a Leverhulme Trust Project Grant
Balphadrig, Inverness & Bona
Grid reference
NH 642 436 (accurate position)
Six-figure easting & northing
264200 843600
Latitude
57.46254327221249
Longitude
-4.2640949601448765
County
Inverness-shire
Nearby places
Kilvean, settlement, Inverness (0.18 miles)
Kilvean, ~eccles, Inverness (0.39 miles)
Torvean, hill with fort, Inverness & Bona (0.45 miles)
Craig Phadrig, Inverness & Bona (1 miles)
St Andrews episcoplian cathedral, Inverness (1.55 miles)
Object Classification
Settlement
Is linear feature?
No
Relationships with other parishes
Within Inverness & Bona
Names
1 head-name linked to this place ?Balphadrig
Head name
Balphadrig
Place
Balphadrig, Inverness & Bona
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The status of this name is
Obsolete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?
Yes
Is the association of this name to this object hypothetical?
No
Balphadrig 1843, OS 6 inch first edn.
Historic formBalphadrig Head nameBalphadrig PlaceBalphadrig, Inverness & Bona Certainty that this name applies to this placeCertain SourceOS 6 inch first edn. Date of citation1843 x 1882 Notes on the context of this place-nameMid to late 19th c. |
Source code
OS 6 inch first edn.
Source title
Ordnance Survey 6 Inch to the Mile, First Edition
Notes
Mid to late 19th c.
Saints in this place-name
Pátraic, Patrick (ns) (maybe)
Pátraic m. Calprainn of Ireland (maybe)
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
