Saints in Scottish Place-Names
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Mary Well, Kirriemuir
Grid reference
NO 386 539 (general (1km))
Six-figure easting & northing
338600 753900
Latitude
56.672955944647654
Longitude
-3.0020797064867004
County
Angus
Nearby places
Kirriemuir, parish (0 miles)
St Mary's Church, (m'eval) Kirriemuir (0 miles)
St Mary's Episcopal Church, Kirriemuir (0.31 miles)
St Colmoc's Chapel, Kirriemuir (0.38 miles)
Balbrydie, settlement, Kirriemuir (1.06 miles)
Object Classification
Water
Is linear feature?
No
Notes
The existence of this well is inferred from the place-name Marywell Brae, a street shown on modern OS Digimap and on OS 6 inch 1st edn, running east from the kirkyard of Kirriemuir Parish Church. At NO387539 is a place called Wellbank (OS Digimap) which may conceivably give a closer location for the site of the actual well.
Relationships with other places
Names
1 head-name linked to this place ?Mary Well
Head name
Mary Well
Place
Mary Well, Kirriemuir
Certainty that this name applies to this place
Certain
The status of this name is
Hypothetical
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?
Yes
Saints in this place-name
Mary, Mary the Blessed Virgin, Our Lady (ns) (probable)
Mary the Blessed Virgin (probable)