Saints in Scottish Place-Names
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Drumblade, parish
Grid reference
NJ 588 402 (accurate position)
Six-figure easting & northing
358800 840200
Latitude
57.45045455281863
Longitude
-2.686602761797537
Nearby places
Teller's Well, Drumblade (0.2 miles)
Brideswell, settlement Drumblade (0.88 miles)
Brideswell, ~well, Drumblade (0.88 miles)
Ladyscroft, settlement Forgue (1.34 miles)
Ninemaiden Chapel, Drumblade (1.87 miles)
Object Classification
Parish (extant in 1975)
Is linear feature?
No
Notes
The NGR is for the parish kirk buyilt in 1773. The bellcote there is of 1641. The church is beside the parish boundary, marked by a burn, across which is the parisk kirk of Forglen.
Relationships with other places
Contains Brideswell, ~well, Drumblade
Contains Brideswell, settlement Drumblade
Contains Ninemaiden Chapel, Drumblade
Contains Teller's Well, Drumblade
Parish details
Drumblade
Parish TLA
DRU
County
Aberdeenshire
Medieval diocese
Aberdeen
Parish notes
One of the six pendicles of KINKELL (KKL KKX), the revenues of which appear in part to have pertained to the Knights Hospitallers at Torphichen in 14th c.. The six chapels or membra closely associated with Kinkell were: Drumblade, Dyce, Kemnay, Kinnellar, Kintore and Skene, the mother church accordingly being known as a plebanus (Abdn. Reg. ii 248, 253 [where called a 'plebania']; CPL vii, 208). Any link to the Hospt. came to an end with the erection of the church and its annexed chapels into a prebend of Aberdeen cathedral in 1420 (Abdn. Reg. ii 253). Both parsonage and vicarage continued to be annexed at the Reformation, the cure being served by a vicar pensioner maintained by the canon of Kinkell. Cowan 1967, 48. No changes noted in Shennan 1892.
Names
1 head-name linked to this place ?Drumblade
This is not a hagiotoponym.Head name
Drumblade
Place
Drumblade, parish
Certainty that this name applies to this place
Certain
The status of this name is
Current
Is this a current OS form? ?
No
Is this the original referent of the place?
No
Is the association of this name to this object hypothetical?
No
Drumblaitt 1560, Assumption
Historic formDrumblaitt This is not a hagiotoponym. Head nameDrumblade PlaceDrumblade, parish Certainty that this name applies to this placeCertain SourceAssumption, 445 Date of citation1560 x 1570 |
Source code
Assumption
Source title
The Books of Assumption of the Thirds of Benefices: Scottish Ecclesiastical Rentals at the Reformation
Editors
J. Kirk
Series
Records of Social and Economic History, New Series, 21
Year
1995