Saints in Scottish Place-Names
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Cnoc Mhuire, Wardlaw, Kirkhill
Grid reference
NH 548 456 (accurate position)
Six-figure easting & northing
254800 845600
Latitude
57.47758486290672
Longitude
-4.421847688838671
Altitude (metres)
62
Nearby places
St Mary's Church, Kirkhill (0.09 miles)
Mary Well, Kirkhill (0.62 miles)
Beauly Priory, St Durstan's, Kilmorack (1.39 miles)
St Mary's Church, Beauly, Kilmorack (1.44 miles)
Kirkhill, Wardlaw (=Dunballoch) parish (1.55 miles)
Object Classification
Relief
Is linear feature?
No
Notes
McKay (Wardlaw MS, p. xvi) states that an oath in the district as 'Air Moire 's a' Chnoc' (Er Moir si chrock), meaning "by Mary in Kirkhill".
Relationships with other parishes
Within Kirkhill, Wardlaw (=Dunballoch) parish (formerly)
Relationships with other places
Adjacent St Mary's Church, Kirkhill
Names
1 head-name linked to this place ?Cnoc Mhuire
Head name
Cnoc Mhuire
Place
Cnoc Mhuire, Wardlaw, Kirkhill
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The status of this name is
Obsolete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
Mons Mariae 1699, Wardlaw MS
Historic formMons Mariae Head nameCnoc Mhuire PlaceCnoc Mhuire, Wardlaw, Kirkhill Certainty that this name applies to this placeCertain SourceWardlaw MS, 111 Date of citation1699 x 1709 Notes on the context of this place-nameChronicles of the Frasers: The Wardlaw MS entitled ‘Polichronicon seu Policratica temporum, or, the True Genealogy of the Frasers. 916-1674, by Master James Fraser, Minister of the parish of Wardlaw (now Kirkhill), Inverness. Written 1666; see Catalogue of Fraser's mss. p. xliv. In fact though the early work on this text may have begun in 1666, the manuscript as it now stands seems to have been completed between 1699 and 1709, when Fraser died. |
Source code
Wardlaw MS
Source title
Wardlaw MS. Fraser Chronicles
Editors
W. MacKay
Series
Scottish History Society
Year
1905
Notes
Chronicles of the Frasers: The Wardlaw MS entitled ‘Polichronicon seu Policratica temporum, or, the True Genealogy of the Frasers. 916-1674, by Master James Fraser, Minister of the parish of Wardlaw (now Kirkhill), Inverness. Written 1666; see Catalogue of Fraser's mss. p. xliv. In fact though the early work on this text may have begun in 1666, the manuscript as it now stands seems to have been completed between 1699 and 1709, when Fraser died.
Cnoc-mhoir 1792, OSA
Historic formCnoc-mhoir Head nameCnoc Mhuire PlaceCnoc Mhuire, Wardlaw, Kirkhill Certainty that this name applies to this placeCertain SourceOSA, vol. 4 p111 Date of citation1792 x 1792 Feature named in sourcehill |
Source code
OSA
Source title
Old Statistical Account
Cnoc Mhoire 1905, Wardlaw MS
Historic formCnoc Mhoire Head nameCnoc Mhuire PlaceCnoc Mhuire, Wardlaw, Kirkhill Certainty that this name applies to this placeCertain SourceWardlaw MS, xvi Date of citation1905 x 1905 Notes on the context of this place-nameChronicles of the Frasers: The Wardlaw MS entitled ‘Polichronicon seu Policratica temporum, or, the True Genealogy of the Frasers. 916-1674, by Master James Fraser, Minister of the parish of Wardlaw (now Kirkhill), Inverness. Written 1666; see Catalogue of Fraser's mss. p. xliv. In fact though the early work on this text may have begun in 1666, the manuscript as it now stands seems to have been completed between 1699 and 1709, when Fraser died. |
Source code
Wardlaw MS
Source title
Wardlaw MS. Fraser Chronicles
Editors
W. MacKay
Series
Scottish History Society
Year
1905
Notes
Chronicles of the Frasers: The Wardlaw MS entitled ‘Polichronicon seu Policratica temporum, or, the True Genealogy of the Frasers. 916-1674, by Master James Fraser, Minister of the parish of Wardlaw (now Kirkhill), Inverness. Written 1666; see Catalogue of Fraser's mss. p. xliv. In fact though the early work on this text may have begun in 1666, the manuscript as it now stands seems to have been completed between 1699 and 1709, when Fraser died.
Saints in this place-name
Mary, Mary the Blessed Virgin, Our Lady (ns) (certain)
Mary the Blessed Virgin (certain)
Relationships with other place names
Same specific as St Mary's Church, St Mary's Church, Kirkhill
Place-name data
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