Saints in Scottish Place-Names
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Holywood, parish, aka Dercongal
Grid reference
NX 954 796 (accurate position)
Six-figure easting & northing
295400 579600
Latitude
55.09971134508315
Longitude
-3.639482345673337
Nearby places
Holywood Abbey, aka Dercongal, Holywood (0 miles)
Kirkmahoe, eccles. Kirkmahoe (1.71 miles)
Kirkmahoe, parish (1.71 miles)
Maryfield, Terregles (1.72 miles)
Maryholm, settlement, Terregles (1.92 miles)
Object Classification
Parish (extant in 1975)
Is linear feature?
No
Notes
NGR is for Holywood parish church, on the site of Holywood Abbey.
Relationships with other parishes
Contains Keir, modern parish (formerly)
Relationships with other places
Parish details
Holywood HOL formerly Dercongal, and including Keir KER.
Parish TLA
HOL
County
Dumfriesshire
Medieval diocese
Glasgow
Parish notes
The modern parish of Keir KER immediately to the south of Penpont was earlier ‘a pendicle of the Abbacy and a part of the Parish of Holywood ... but lately divided from it and erected into a Parish’ (Geog. Coll. iii, 207).
Names
2 head-names linked to this place ?Dercongal
Head name
Dercongal
Place
Holywood, parish, aka Dercongal
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The status of this name is
Obsolete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?
No
Is the association of this name to this object hypothetical?
No
Holywood
Head name
Holywood
Place
Holywood, parish, aka Dercongal
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
Historic formHalywood Head nameHolywood PlaceHolywood, parish, aka Dercongal Certainty that this name applies to this placeCertain SourceBlaeu, Nithsdale Date of citation1654 x 1654 Feature named in sourcekirk |
Source code
Blaeu
Source title
Atlas Novus
Editors
and publisher: Johan Blaeu
Year
1654
Place-name data
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