Saints in Scottish Place-Names
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St Muireach's Well, Dunkeld & Dowally
Grid reference
NO 003 504 (accurate position)
Six-figure easting & northing
300300 750400
Latitude
56.63492601594253
Longitude
-3.6255715895278975
Altitude (metres)
150
County
Perthshire
Nearby places
Kilmorich, settlement Dunkeld & Dowally DDA (0.12 miles)
St Muireach's Chapel/Kilmorich eccl. DDA (0.14 miles)
St Laurence's Chapel, Little Dunkeld (1.31 miles)
Tobar Louris, Little Dunkeld (1.33 miles)
St Anne's Well, Dowally, Dunkeld & Dowally (1.43 miles)
Object Classification
Antiquity
Water
Is linear feature?
No
Notes
NMRS records this as a "mystic" well used for medicinal purposes (NSA, 1842). Contrary to MacKinlay (1914, 503), Watston states that this well can have nothing to do with Moroc, and the dedicatee here is Muireach (possibly Muireadhach, abbot of Iona, who died inn 1011) (1926, 329). In 1975 OS recorded that the site had been obliterated by 'soil creep', with 'nothing now to indicate its site apart from water seeping from the bank-side. The name is not known locally.'
Relationships with other parishes
Within Dunkeld & Dowally
Relationships with other places
Names
1 head-name linked to this place ?St Muireach's Well
Head name
St Muireach's Well
Place
St Muireach's Well, Dunkeld & Dowally
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The status of this name is
Obsolete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
St Muireach's Well 1843, OS 6 inch first edn.
Historic formSt Muireach's Well Head nameSt Muireach's Well PlaceSt Muireach's Well, Dunkeld & Dowally 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.
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