Saints in Scottish Place-Names
Funded by a Leverhulme Trust Project Grant
Kirkoswald, settlement, Kirkoswald
Grid reference
NS 238 075 (accurate position)
Six-figure easting & northing
223800 607500
Latitude
55.32989589800123
Longitude
-4.777965339603186
Altitude (metres)
110
County
Ayrshire
Nearby places
Kirkoswald, parish (aka Turnberry) (0 miles)
Kirk Oswald, eccles. Kirkoswald (0 miles)
Blanefield, Kirkoswald (0.93 miles)
Lady Well, Thomaston, Kirkoswald (1.27 miles)
Auchenblane, Kirkoswald (1.39 miles)
Object Classification
Settlement
Is linear feature?
No
Notes
NGR given for Kirk Oswald, the old parish church, around which is clustered the village of Kirkoswald.
Relationships with other parishes
Names
1 head-name linked to this place ?Kirkoswald
Head name
Kirkoswald
Place
Kirkoswald, settlement, Kirkoswald
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?
No
Is the association of this name to this object hypothetical?
No
Kyrcoswald 1429, RMS
Historic formKyrcoswald Head nameKirkoswald PlaceKirkoswald, settlement, Kirkoswald Certainty that this name applies to this placeCertain SourceRMS, ii no. 128 Date of citation1429 x 1429 Feature named in sourcelands Notes on the context of this place-nameReprinted 1984 |
Source code
RMS
Source title
Registrum Magni Sigilli (Register of the Great Seal)
Editors
J.M.Thomson et al.
Volume
1-11
Year
1882-1914
Notes
Reprinted 1984
Kirkoswald 1541, RMS
Historic formKirkoswald Head nameKirkoswald PlaceKirkoswald, settlement, Kirkoswald Certainty that this name applies to this placeCertain SourceRMS, iii no. 2400 Date of citation1541 x 1541 Notes on the context of this place-nameReprinted 1984 |
Source code
RMS
Source title
Registrum Magni Sigilli (Register of the Great Seal)
Editors
J.M.Thomson et al.
Volume
1-11
Year
1882-1914
Notes
Reprinted 1984
Relationships with other place names
Derives from Kirk Oswald, Kirk Oswald, eccles. Kirkoswald
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
