Saints in Scottish Place-Names
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Ladylands, settlement, Kingsbarns
Grid reference
NO 606 095 (assumed location)
Six-figure easting & northing
360600 709500
Latitude
56.27641533998869
Longitude
-2.636351673332705
County
Fife
Nearby places
Rude Well, Crail (1.05 miles)
Holy Cross Kirk, eccles. Crail (1.14 miles)
Crail, parish (1.14 miles)
St Maolrubha's Chapel, Crail (1.32 miles)
Kilminning, settlement Crail (1.59 miles)
Object Classification
Settlement
Is linear feature?
No
Notes
For discussion see Taylor & Márkus iii, 378, including observation that the name presumably referred to 'lands where support the cult of the BVM'. Note the wider cult of the Virgin in Crail, in connection with the nunnery of Haddington. It seems to be the same place as Newton of Randerston.
Names
1 head-name linked to this place ?Ladylands
Head name
Ladylands
Place
Ladylands, settlement, Kingsbarns
The status of this name is
Obsolete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
Ladylanddis 1429, RMS
Historic formLadylanddis Head nameLadylands PlaceLadylands, settlement, Kingsbarns Certainty that this name applies to this placeCertain SourceRMS, ii no. 130 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
Historic formLadylands Head nameLadylands PlaceLadylands, settlement, Kingsbarns Certainty that this name applies to this placeCertain SourceRetours, Fife no. 326 Date of citation1622 x 1622 Feature named in sourcelands |
Source code
Retours
Source title
Inquisitionum ad Capellam Domini regis Retornatarum .. Abbreviatio
Editors
T. Thomson
Volume
i-iii
Year
1811-16
Saints in this place-name
Mary, Mary the Blessed Virgin, Our Lady (ns) (probable)
Lady, Our Lady (probable)
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