Saints in Scottish Place-Names
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Beauly Priory, St Durstan's, Kilmorack
Grid reference
NH 527 464 (accurate position)
Six-figure easting & northing
252700 846400
Latitude
57.48408810719548
Longitude
-4.457320272356096
County
Inverness-shire
Nearby places
St Mary's Church, Beauly, Kilmorack (0.12 miles)
Kirkhill, Wardlaw (=Dunballoch) parish (0.95 miles)
St Maurice's Chapel, Kirkhill (0.96 miles)
Mary Well, Kirkhill (1.18 miles)
Cnoc Mhuire, Wardlaw, Kirkhill (1.39 miles)
Object Classification
Antiquity
Ecclesiastical
Is linear feature?
No
Notes
The priory was Valliscaulian, later Cisterican, founded circa 1230; it became Cistercian 16 April 1510 (Watt & Shead 2001, 15).
Relationships with other parishes
Within Kilmorack, parish
Names
1 head-name linked to this place ?St Durstan's Church
Head name
St Durstan's Church
Place
Beauly Priory, St Durstan's, Kilmorack
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The status of this name is
Obsolete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
Cella in St. Durst 1223, Wardlaw MS
Historic formCella in St. Durst Head nameSt Durstan's Church PlaceBeauly Priory, St Durstan's, Kilmorack Certainty that this name applies to this placeCertain SourceWardlaw MS, 61 Date of citation1223 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.
St. Durstan's Church 1699, Wardlaw MS
Historic formSt. Durstan's Church Head nameSt Durstan's Church PlaceBeauly Priory, St Durstan's, Kilmorack Certainty that this name applies to this placeCertain SourceWardlaw MS, 61 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
Drostan, Troscan (ns) (certain)
Drostan (certain)