Saints in Scottish Place-Names
Funded by a Leverhulme Trust Project Grant
St Ronan's Well, Kilmaronock
Grid reference
NS 447 876 (accurate position)
Six-figure easting & northing
244700 687600
Latitude
56.05606402276335
Longitude
-4.494215469356871
Altitude (metres)
10
County
Dunbartonshire
Nearby places
Kilmaronock, parish (0.33 miles)
Kilmaronock, eccles., Kilmaronock (0.33 miles)
Kilmaronock, settlement, Kilmaronock (0.68 miles)
San Makessan, settlement, Kilmaronock (1.39 miles)
Drymen, parish (1.63 miles)
Object Classification
Antiquity
Water
Is linear feature?
No
Notes
It lies c.400m wets of the parish kirk of Kilmaronock. It has occasionally been mis-named St Marnock's Well, in error. This arises from confusion of Marnock (a hypocorism of Ernán) with Moronock (a hypocorism of Ronán). See NMRS for instances of such confusion.
Relationships with other parishes
Within Kilmaronock, parish
Relationships with other places
Adjacent Kilmaronock, eccles., Kilmaronock
Names
2 head-names linked to this place ?St Maronock's Well
Head name
St Maronock's Well
Place
St Ronan's Well, Kilmaronock
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The status of this name is
Obsolete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 Maronoch's Well 1794, OSA
Historic formSt Maronoch's Well Head nameSt Maronock's Well PlaceSt Ronan's Well, Kilmaronock Certainty that this name applies to this placeCertain SourceOSA, xi, 206 Date of citation1794 x 1794 |
Source code
OSA
Source title
Old Statistical Account
St Maronock's Well 1865, OS 6 inch first edn.
Historic formSt Maronock's Well Head nameSt Maronock's Well PlaceSt Ronan's Well, Kilmaronock Certainty that this name applies to this placeCertain SourceOS 6 inch first edn. 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 Ronan's Well
Head name
St Ronan's Well
Place
St Ronan's Well, Kilmaronock
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
Saints in this place-name
Rónán (ns) (certain)
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
