Saints in Scottish Place-Names
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Panmure, settlement, Panbride
Grid reference
NO 544 376 (accurate position)
Six-figure easting & northing
354400 737600
Latitude
56.52832237247205
Longitude
-2.7413706995995595
County
Angus
Nearby places
Boath, Bothmernock, settlement, Panbride (0.95 miles)
Both, Bothmernock, eccles, Panbride (0.95 miles)
Monikie, parish (1.77 miles)
Panbride, parish, alias St Brigid (2.01 miles)
St Bride's Church, Panbride (2.01 miles)
Object Classification
Settlement
Is linear feature?
No
Relationships with other parishes
Names
1 head-name linked to this place ?Panmure
Head name
Panmure
Place
Panmure, settlement, Panbride
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?
No
Historic formPanmore Head namePanmure PlacePanmure, settlement, Panbride SourceRRS v, no. 375 Date of citation1329 x 1329 Feature named in sourcedominus de |
Source code
RRS v
Source title
Regesta Regum Scottorum vol.v
Editors
A.A.M. Duncan
Secondary Title
Acts of Robert I
Year
1988
Saints in this place-name
Mary, Mary the Blessed Virgin, Our Lady (ns) (maybe) In spite of Watson's suggestion that the name represents Pictish *pant mawr 'big hollow' (1926, 373-4), it is possible - especially in an area where another *pant is named after Brigid (Panbride), that this is a reference to the BVM
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