Saints in Scottish Place-Names
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St Patrick's Stone, Erskine
Grid reference
NS 461 724 (accurate position)
Six-figure easting & northing
246100 672400
Latitude
55.9200591813484
Longitude
-4.4630587900728065
County
Renfrewshire
Nearby places
Kilpatrick, settlement Old Kilpatrick (0.38 miles)
Sedes Patricii, Old Kilpatrick (0.38 miles)
St Patrick's Well, Old Kilpatrick (0.38 miles)
Old Kilpatrick, parish, formerly Kilpatrick (0.39 miles)
Kilpatrick, eccles. Old Kilpatrick (0.39 miles)
Object Classification
Other
stone
Is linear feature?
No
Notes
The rock sits low in the water, almost underneath the Erskine Bridge. An automatic light on the rock guides shipping, shown on OS Digimap as St Patrick's Light. A legend appears in the nineteenth century associated with this stone: "there is St Patrick's Rock, near Erskine Ferry, on which, it is said, he was fishing as a boy when carried off to Ireland" (J. Bruce, 'History of the Parish of West or Old Kilpatrick'(1893) ch. 4].
Relationships with other parishes
Within Erskine, parish
Names
1 head-name linked to this place ?St Patrick's Stone
Head name
St Patrick's Stone
Place
St Patrick's Stone, Erskine
Certainty that this name applies to this place
Certain
The status of this name is
Current
Is this a current OS form? ?
Yes
Is this the original referent of the place?
Yes
Is the association of this name to this object hypothetical?
No
St Patrick's Stone 1793, OSA
Historic formSt Patrick's Stone Head nameSt Patrick's Stone PlaceSt Patrick's Stone, Erskine Certainty that this name applies to this placeCertain SourceOSA, v, 229 Date of citation1793 x 1793 Feature named in sourcestone |
Source code
OSA
Source title
Old Statistical Account
Saints in this place-name
Pátraic, Patrick (ns) (certain)
Pátraic m. Calprainn of Ireland (certain)
Place-name data
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