Saints in Scottish Place-Names
Funded by a Leverhulme Trust Project Grant
Port Glasgow, modern parish
Grid reference
NS 320 745 (accurate position)
Six-figure easting & northing
232000 674500
Latitude
55.93419275326951
Longitude
-4.689757665687419
County
Renfrewshire
Nearby places
Kilbirnie, settlement, Greenock (1.88 miles)
West Kilbride, settlement Kilmacolm (1.93 miles)
High Mathernock, Kilmacolm (2.12 miles)
Mathernock, settlement Kilmacolm (2.17 miles)
Low Mathernock, Kilmacolm (2.32 miles)
Object Classification
Parish (extant in 1975)
Is linear feature?
No
Relationships with other parishes
Within Kilmacolm, parish (formerly)
Contains Port Glasgow, modern parish
Within Port Glasgow, modern parish
Parish details
Port Glasgow formerly part of Kilmacolm, erected as distinct parish in 1695.
Parish TLA
PTG
County
Renfrewshire
Names
1 head-name linked to this place ?Port Glasgow
This is not a hagiotoponym.Head name
Port Glasgow
Place
Port Glasgow, modern parish
Certainty that this name applies to this place
Certain
The status of this name is
Current
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
Place-name data
The place-name data featured in this resource is copyright of the University of Glasgow.
Map Layers
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Default map:
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Satellite map:
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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
