Saints in Scottish Place-Names
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Maiden
Other names
Medana
Introduction
Traditions about St Maiden are recorded in the Aberdeen Breviary (Macquarrie 2012, 385). She has been identified with other saints whose cults are more widespread, but she may be a local saint whose cult has been assimilated to those who are better-known.
Gender
Female
Associated places
Kirkmaiden in the Rhinns of Galloway
Territory or Ethnicity (broad)
Unknown
Related Saints
Cult sometimes merges with Étaín ingen Ligin of Tuaim Noa (possible)
Watson 1926, 163; O Riain, Dictionary, 279.
Cult sometimes merges with Midan ingen Chéráin of Clonfad (possible)
O Riain, Dictionary, 456
Saint in place-names
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