Saints in Scottish Place-Names
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St Nicholas Crag, Dundee
Grid reference
NO 403 299 (accurate position)
Six-figure easting & northing
340300 729900
Latitude
56.457568813501325
Longitude
-2.9688126906815984
Altitude (metres)
5
County
Angus
Nearby places
St Nicholas' Chapel, Dundee (0 miles)
St Mary's Church, Dundee (0.18 miles)
St Clement's Church, Dundee (0.19 miles)
Dundee, parish (0.19 miles)
St Mary's Well, Dundee (0.2 miles)
Object Classification
Coastal
Is linear feature?
No
Relationships with other parishes
Within Dundee, parish
Relationships with other places
Contains St Nicholas' Chapel, Dundee
Names
1 head-name linked to this place ?Sanct Nicholas Crag
Head name
Sanct Nicholas Crag
Place
St Nicholas Crag, Dundee
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The status of this name is
Obsolete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
Sanct Nicholas Crag 1490, RMS
Historic formSanct Nicholas Crag Head nameSanct Nicholas Crag PlaceSt Nicholas Crag, Dundee Certainty that this name applies to this placeCertain SourceRMS, ii no. 1943 Date of citation1490 x 1490 Feature named in sourceground, rock and island 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
rupem Sancti Nicholaii 1546, RMS
Historic formrupem Sancti Nicholaii Head nameSanct Nicholas Crag PlaceSt Nicholas Crag, Dundee Certainty that this name applies to this placeCertain SourceRMS, iii no. 3231 Date of citation1546 x 1546 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
Saints in this place-name
Nicholas (ns) (certain)
Nicholas, bishop of Myra (certain)
Relationships with other place names
Same specific as Capella Sancti Nicholai, St Nicholas' Chapel, Dundee
Place-name data
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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
