Saints in Scottish Place-Names
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Kirkconnel, parish KCL
Grid reference
NS 723 150 (accurate position)
Six-figure easting & northing
272300 615000
Latitude
55.412241470940415
Longitude
-4.017369947251349
Nearby places
St Connel's Church, eccles, Kirkconnel KCL (0 miles)
St Conall's Well, Kirkconnel KCL (0.19 miles)
St Connell's Grave, Kirkconnel KCL (1.28 miles)
Kirkconnel Parish Church, (modern) KCL (1.7 miles)
Kirkconnel, settlement, Kirkconnel KCL (1.7 miles)
Object Classification
Parish (extant in 1975)
Notes
This parish was briefly united with tne neighbouring parish of Sanquhar during the seventeenth century. The NGR is for 'St Connel's Church' marked as an antiquity on OS maps, a twelfth- or thirteenth-century church, but with fragments of stone carving some two centuries older.
Relationships with other places
Contains Friarminnan, settlement, Kirkconnel KCL
Contains Kirkconnel Parish Church, (modern) KCL
Contains Kirkconnel, settlement, Kirkconnel KCL
Contains St Conall's Well, Kirkconnel KCL
Contains St Conall's Well, Kirkconnel KCL
Contains St Connel's Church, eccles, Kirkconnel KCL
Contains St Connel's Church, eccles, Kirkconnel KCL
Contains St Connell's Grave, Kirkconnel KCL
Contains St Connell's Grave, Kirkconnel KCL
Parish TLA
KCL
County
Dumfriesshire
Medieval diocese
Glasgow
Names
1 head-name linked to this place ?Kirkconnel
Head name
Kirkconnel
Place
Kirkconnel, parish KCL
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
Kirkconall 1665, Geog. Coll. III
Historic formKirkconall Head nameKirkconnel PlaceKirkconnel, parish KCL Certainty that this name applies to this placeCertain SourceGeog. Coll. III, 197 Date of citation1665 x 1733 |
Source code
Geog. Coll. III
Source title
Macfarlane's Geographical Collections
Editors
Arthur Mitchel and James Toshach Clark
Series
Scottish History Society
Year
1908
Kirkconnell 1794, OSA
Historic formKirkconnell Head nameKirkconnel PlaceKirkconnel, parish KCL Certainty that this name applies to this placeCertain SourceOSA, x, 433 Date of citation1794 x 1794 |
Source code
OSA
Source title
Old Statistical Account
Relationships with other place names
Derives from Kirkconnel, St Connel's Church, eccles, Kirkconnel KCL