Saints in Scottish Place-Names
Funded by a Leverhulme Trust Project Grant
Duirinish, parish (Skye)
Grid reference
NG 224 612 (accurate position)
Six-figure easting & northing
122400 861200
Latitude
57.55565651634593
Longitude
-6.641674245480474
Nearby places
Cill Chonnáin, eccles. Trumpan, Duirinish (Skye) (0 miles)
Trumpan, former parish, Duirinish (Skye) (0 miles)
St Columba's Chapel, Duirinish (Skye) (0.28 miles)
St Francis' Chapel, Duirinish (Skye) (6.15 miles)
St Comgan's Chapel, Duirinish (Skye) (7.75 miles)
Object Classification
Parish (extant in 1975)
Is linear feature?
No
Notes
NGR for St Conan's Church, Trumpan Head, medieval ruins and grave-slabs.
Relationships with other places
Contains Allt Mhicheil, Duirinish (Skye)
Contains Cill Chonnáin, eccles. Trumpan, Duirinish (Skye)
Contains Coire Mhic Mhicheil, Duirinish (Skye)
Contains Kildonan, settlement Duirinish (Skye)
Contains Kildonan/Cill Donnain, ~eccles. Duirinish
Contains Kilmuir, settlement Duirinish (Skye)
Contains Kilmuir, settlement Duirinish (Skye)
Contains St Columba's Chapel, Duirinish (Skye)
Contains St Comgan's Chapel, Duirinish (Skye)
Contains St Francis' Chapel, Duirinish (Skye)
Contains St Francis' Chapel, Duirinish (Skye)
Parish details
Duirinish Skye
Parish TLA
DSH
County
Inverness-shire
Medieval diocese
Isles
Names
1 head-name linked to this place ?Duirinish
Durenys 1406, Highland Papers
Historic formDurenys Head nameDuirinish PlaceDuirinish, parish (Skye) Certainty that this name applies to this placeCertain SourceHighland Papers, iv, 140 Date of citation1406 x 1406 |
MacPhail, J.R.N, 1914-34, Highland Papers (4 vols), Scottish History Society, Edinburgh.
Historic formDurinis Head nameDuirinish PlaceDuirinish, parish (Skye) Certainty that this name applies to this placeCertain SourceRSS, v no. 3246 Date of citation1567 x 1567 Feature named in sourcevicarage and parsonage |
Source code
RSS
Source title
Registrum Secreti Sigilli Regum Scotorum
Editors
M.Livingstone et al.
Year
1908-
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
