Saints in Scottish Place-Names
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St Nachalan's Well, GTG
Grid reference
NO 370 960 (assumed location)
Six-figure easting & northing
337000 796000
Latitude
57.05092896438521
Longitude
-3.0386163451331227
County
Aberdeenshire
Nearby places
Glenmuick, former parish, GTG (0.81 miles)
St Mungo's Well, Glengairn, GTG (1.14 miles)
St Mungo's Chapel, Glengairn (1.28 miles)
Glengairn, former parish, GTG (1.28 miles)
Glenmuick Tullich & Glengairn (1.39 miles)
Object Classification
Water
Is linear feature?
No
Notes
The well was named by one of Francis Diack's informants, 1920 x 1930, and described as lying 'in garden of Monaltrie House, Ballater', which suggests the NGR given. Diack also recorded evidence that remains of a church were remembered there.
Relationships with other parishes
Names
1 head-name linked to this place ?St Nachalan's Well
Head name
St Nachalan's Well
Place
St Nachalan's Well, GTG
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The status of this name is
Obsolete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
St Nachalan's Well 1920, Aberdeen, King's College MS 2276
Historic formSt Nachalan's Well Head nameSt Nachalan's Well PlaceSt Nachalan's Well, GTG Certainty that this name applies to this placeCertain SourceAberdeen, King's College MS 2276, fo. 54r Date of citation1920 x 1930 Notes on the context of this place-nameAlexander explains in this notebook that the material has been copied from Diack's notebooks of his fieldwork in the Eastern Highlands, 1920-1930, covering chiefly the districts of Aberfoyle, Strathardle, Braemar, Strathspey and Inverness. Alexander comments that 'over the area named, Diack conversed with the last generation of Gaelic speakers possessing a sure grip of the place-names in their true form'. He goes on to explain that what follows is ordered by district and map number, and includes phonetic transcriptions of 'spoken names as used by Gaelic speakers, nearly all of them elderly people'. We are grateful to Prof. Dauvit Broun for his record of some names from this manuscript. |
Source code
Aberdeen, King's College MS 2276
Author
W. M. Alexander
Source title
Place-Names of the Eastern Higlands from the Note Books of Francis C. Diack
Year
1930 x 1957
Notes
Alexander explains in this notebook that the material has been copied from Diack's notebooks of his fieldwork in the Eastern Highlands, 1920-1930, covering chiefly the districts of Aberfoyle, Strathardle, Braemar, Strathspey and Inverness. Alexander comments that 'over the area named, Diack conversed with the last generation of Gaelic speakers possessing a sure grip of the place-names in their true form'. He goes on to explain that what follows is ordered by district and map number, and includes phonetic transcriptions of 'spoken names as used by Gaelic speakers, nearly all of them elderly people'. We are grateful to Prof. Dauvit Broun for his record of some names from this manuscript.
Saints in this place-name
Nechtan, Nathalan (ns) (certain)
Nathalan (maybe)
Nechtan Neir (maybe)
