Saints in Scottish Place-Names
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St Mungo's Well, Glengairn, GTG
Grid reference
NO 354 969 (accurate position)
Six-figure easting & northing
335400 796900
Latitude
57.0587919381362
Longitude
-3.065220260073184
Altitude (metres)
230
County
Aberdeenshire
Nearby places
St Mungo's Chapel, Glengairn (0.14 miles)
Glengairn, former parish, GTG (0.14 miles)
St Nachalan's Well, GTG (1.14 miles)
Glenmuick Tullich & Glengairn (1.21 miles)
Glenmuick, former parish, GTG (1.47 miles)
Object Classification
Water
Is linear feature?
No
Relationships with other parishes
Within Glengairn, former parish, GTG
Relationships with other places
Adjacent St Mungo's Chapel, Glengairn
Names
1 head-name linked to this place ?St Mungo's Well
Head name
St Mungo's Well
Place
St Mungo's Well, Glengairn, GTG
Certainty that this name applies to this place
Certain
The status of this name is
Current
Is this a current OS form? ?
Yes
Is this the original referent of the place?
Yes
Is the association of this name to this object hypothetical?
No
St Mungo's Well 1843, OS 6 inch first edn.
Historic formSt Mungo's Well Head nameSt Mungo's Well PlaceSt Mungo's Well, Glengairn, GTG 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.
St Mungo's Well 1920, Aberdeen, King's College MS 2276
Historic formSt Mungo's Well Head nameSt Mungo's Well PlaceSt Mungo's Well, Glengairn, GTG Certainty that this name applies to this placeCertain SourceAberdeen, King's College MS 2276, fo. 54r Date of citation1920 x 1930 Notes on the context of this place-nameAlexander explains in this notebook that the material has been copied from Diack's notebooks of his fieldwork in the Eastern Highlands, 1920-1930, covering chiefly the districts of Aberfoyle, Strathardle, Braemar, Strathspey and Inverness. Alexander comments that 'over the area named, Diack conversed with the last generation of Gaelic speakers possessing a sure grip of the place-names in their true form'. He goes on to explain that what follows is ordered by district and map number, and includes phonetic transcriptions of 'spoken names as used by Gaelic speakers, nearly all of them elderly people'. We are grateful to Prof. Dauvit Broun for his record of some names from this manuscript. |
Source code
Aberdeen, King's College MS 2276
Author
W. M. Alexander
Source title
Place-Names of the Eastern Higlands from the Note Books of Francis C. Diack
Year
1930 x 1957
Notes
Alexander explains in this notebook that the material has been copied from Diack's notebooks of his fieldwork in the Eastern Highlands, 1920-1930, covering chiefly the districts of Aberfoyle, Strathardle, Braemar, Strathspey and Inverness. Alexander comments that 'over the area named, Diack conversed with the last generation of Gaelic speakers possessing a sure grip of the place-names in their true form'. He goes on to explain that what follows is ordered by district and map number, and includes phonetic transcriptions of 'spoken names as used by Gaelic speakers, nearly all of them elderly people'. We are grateful to Prof. Dauvit Broun for his record of some names from this manuscript.
Saints in this place-name
Kentigern, Mungo, Mo Choe (ns) (certain)
Kentigern of Glasgow (certain)
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