Saints in Scottish Place-Names
Funded by a Leverhulme Trust Project Grant
St Mary's Land, Stirling
Grid reference
NS 790 930 (general (1km))
Six-figure easting & northing
279000 693000
Latitude
56.114458870120345
Longitude
-3.946188087838056
County
Stirlingshire
Nearby places
Tibirmasko, ~well, St Ninians or Stirling (0 miles)
St James Hospital, Stirling (0 miles)
St Ninian's Chapel, St Ninians or Stirling (0.37 miles)
St Ninian's Well, Stirling (0.37 miles)
St John Street, Stirling (0.39 miles)
Object Classification
Settlement
Is linear feature?
No
Notes
NGR given is approximate, for the burgh, as these lands are designated as 'inn burgo de Strewelin' in the charter.
Relationships with other parishes
Within Stirling, parish
Names
1 head-name linked to this place ?Terra Sanctae Mariae
Head name
Terra Sanctae Mariae
Place
St Mary's Land, Stirling
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The status of this name is
Obsolete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
Terram Sancte Marie 1299, Arb. Lib.
Historic formTerram Sancte Marie Head nameTerra Sanctae Mariae PlaceSt Mary's Land, Stirling Certainty that this name applies to this placeCertain SourceArb. Lib., i, no. 321 Date of citation1299 x 1301 |
Source code
Arb. Lib.
Source title
Liber S. Thome de Aberbrothoc
Series
Bannatyne Club
Volume
1 & 2
Year
1848-56
Saints in this place-name
Mary, Mary the Blessed Virgin, Our Lady (ns) (certain)
Mary the Blessed Virgin (certain)
Place-name data
The place-name data featured in this resource is copyright of the University of Glasgow.
Map Layers
The map interface was produced using the Leaflet.js library. Attribution for the base layers is as follows:
Default map:
Tiles © Esri — Esri, DeLorme, NAVTEQ, TomTom, Intermap, iPC, USGS, FAO, NPS, NRCAN, GeoBase, Kadaster NL, Ordnance Survey, Esri Japan, METI, Esri China (Hong Kong), and the GIS User Community
Satellite map:
Tiles © Esri — Source: Esri, i-cubed, USDA, USGS, AEX, GeoEye, Getmapping, Aerogrid, IGN, IGP, UPR-EGP, and the GIS User Community
Satellite map with labels:
Base map data © OpenStreetMap contributors, CC-BY-SA, Imagery © Mapbox
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
