Saints in Scottish Place-Names

St Fillan's Well, Struan, Blair Atholl

Grid reference

NN 807 652 (assumed location)

Six-figure easting & northing

280700 765200

Latitude

56.76324128845394

Longitude

-3.9518188646332466

County

Perthshire

Nearby places

St Fillan's Church, Struan, Blair Atholl (0.09 miles)

Struan, former parish, Blair Atholl (0.09 miles)

Aldcharmaig, setttlement, Dunkeld (3.53 miles)

Allt Charmaig, burn, DKD/Blair Atholl (3.58 miles)

Blair Atholl, parish (3.79 miles)

Object Classification

Water

Is linear feature?

No

Notes

Mackinlay reports: 'The ancient parish of Struan ... had its church under the invocation of St Fillan. His wooden image was kept in the building, and was used as a rain charm. In times of drought it was carried in procession from the church to the adjoining well, known as Tobar Faolen, where its feet were dipped in the water in the hope that rain would follow. Reverence for the image continued into post-Reformation times .... in the latter half of the seventeenth century the minister of the parish broke it up and threw the fragments into the Garry' (1914, 169)

Relationships with other parishes

Within Blair Atholl, parish

Within Struan, former parish, Blair Atholl (formerly)

Names

1 head-name linked to this place ?

Tobar Fhaolain

Tobar Faolen 1914, MacKinlay 1914

Saints in this place-name

Fáelán, Fillan (ns) (certain)

Fillan of Strathfillan (probable)