Saints in Scottish Place-Names
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Mary Well, Kirkhill
Grid reference
NH 540 450 (assumed location)
Six-figure easting & northing
254000 845000
Latitude
57.47194278957479
Longitude
-4.4348190692824785
Nearby places
Cnoc Mhuire, Wardlaw, Kirkhill (0.62 miles)
St Mary's Church, Kirkhill (0.71 miles)
Kirkhill, Wardlaw (=Dunballoch) parish (0.99 miles)
St Maurice's Chapel, Kirkhill (1.05 miles)
Beauly Priory, St Durstan's, Kilmorack (1.18 miles)
Object Classification
Water
Is linear feature?
No
Notes
The existence of the well is recorded in 1699 x 1709 by the Rev. James Fraser of Kirkhill: 'In Mary Well, near Kirkhill, they observed three ovall pieces of clotted bloud' (Wardlaw MS, 291).
Names
1 head-name linked to this place ?Mary Well
Head name
Mary Well
Place
Mary Well, 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The status of this name is
Obsolete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
Mary Well 1699, Wardlaw MS
Historic formMary Well Head nameMary Well PlaceMary Well, Kirkhill Certainty that this name applies to this placeCertain SourceWardlaw MS, 291 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.
Saints in this place-name
Mary, Mary the Blessed Virgin, Our Lady (ns) (certain)
Mary the Blessed Virgin (certain)
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