Saints in Scottish Place-Names
Funded by a Leverhulme Trust Project Grant
Howmore, former parish South Uist
Grid reference
NF 758 364 (accurate position)
Six-figure easting & northing
75800 836400
Latitude
57.302883047708534
Longitude
-7.384427680220895
County
Inverness-shire
Nearby places
Caibeal Dhiarmaid, South Uist (0 miles)
St Columba's Church, South Uist (0 miles)
St Mary's Church, South Uist (0 miles)
Ardmichael, South Uist (2.55 miles)
Cladh Mhicheil, South Uist (2.59 miles)
Object Classification
Parish (non-extant in 1975)
Is linear feature?
No
Notes
NGR for the cluster of chapels at Howmore, particularly for Teampull Mòr.
Relationships with other parishes
Within South Uist, modern parish
Parish details
Howmore one of the 5 parishes of Uist now in South Uist SUS
Parish TLA
HEX
Medieval diocese
Isles
Names
1 head-name linked to this place ?Howmore
This is not a hagiotoponym.Head name
Howmore
Place
Howmore, former parish South Uist
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The status of this name is
Obsolete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
Howmoir 1561, Assumption
Historic formHowmoir This is not a hagiotoponym. Head nameHowmore PlaceHowmore, former parish South Uist Certainty that this name applies to this placeCertain SourceAssumption, 674 Date of citation1561 x 1561 Feature named in sourceparsonage |
Associated person or bodyIona Abbey or Abbot Certainty of identity of person or bodyCertain |
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
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
