Saints in Scottish Place-Names
Funded by a Leverhulme Trust Project Grant
Pluscarden, former parish, Elgin
Grid reference
NJ 142 576 (assumed location)
Six-figure easting & northing
314200 857600
Latitude
57.60048256511957
Longitude
-3.4357998991929257
County
Morayshire
Nearby places
Pluscarden Abbey, Elgin (0.09 miles)
Vallis Sancti Andree, Elgin (0.39 miles)
St Andrew's Chapel, Elgin (0.39 miles)
Incharnock, settlement, Elgin (1.23 miles)
Kilbuiack, settlement, Alves (3.31 miles)
Object Classification
Parish (non-extant in 1975)
Is linear feature?
No
Relationships with other parishes
Within Elgin (St Giles), parish
Relationships with other places
Contains Pluscarden Abbey, Elgin
Contains Vallis Sancti Andree, Elgin
Parish details
Pluscarden now part of Elgin ELG
Parish TLA
PCX
Medieval diocese
Moray
Names
1 head-name linked to this place ?Pluscarden
This is not a hagiotoponym.Head name
Pluscarden
Place
Pluscarden, former parish, Elgin
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The status of this name is
Obsolete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?
No
Is the association of this name to this object hypothetical?
No
Pluscardin 1561, Assumption
Historic formPluscardin This is not a hagiotoponym. Head namePluscarden PlacePluscarden, former parish, Elgin Certainty that this name applies to this placeCertain SourceAssumption, 472 Date of citation1561 x 1561 Feature named in sourcekirk |
Associated person or bodyPluscarden Priory Certainty of identity of person or bodyCertain |
Source code
Assumption
Source title
The Books of Assumption of the Thirds of Benefices: Scottish Ecclesiastical Rentals at the Reformation
Editors
J. Kirk
Series
Records of Social and Economic History, New Series, 21
Year
1995
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
