Saints in Scottish Place-Names
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Caran
Introduction
This saint is known from place-names and from his appearance in a few Scottish calendars. Balfour Paul mentions a fair to Caran in Anstruther on 23rd Dec (Paul, fairs, 166). In the record of this fair in RMS, however, it is unclear whether it is in die S Tarani or Carani (the T and C are indistinguishable in this hand). If it is Tarani it may be a garbling of *Eternani (ie Ethernan / Adrian of May who is dedicatee of the parish kirk of Anstruther (RMS iv no. 2032). Mackinlay wonders if Caran is a Scottish manifestation of the Welsh saint Caron of Tregaron, of which it has been said: ‘St Caron…is justifiably obscure: it seems probable that he was invented no earlier than the fifteenth century by combining a place name, a story from Geoffrey of Monmouth’s Historia Regum Britanniae, and the feast-day of an entirely separate Irish saint.’ (Jankulak 2007, 107) A bishop Cairin appears in a marginal note in the Book of Leinster (CGSH 725).
Gender
Male
Related Saints
Belongs to the group Caran (ns) (certain)
Feast days
Day of Year
Dec 23
Calendar
Fowlis Easter Breviary, NLS MS 21247
Source code
Fowlis Easter Brev.
Source title
Fowlis Easter Breviary, NLS MS 21247
Notes
Fowlis Easter Fowlis Easter Breviary, NLS MS 21247
Quote from source
S. Karrani epi & conf
Day of Year
Dec 23
Calendar
Glenorchy Psalter, BL Egerton 2899
Source code
Glenorchy psalter
Source title
Glenorchy Psalter, BL Egerton 2899
Notes
Glenorchy psalter The Glenorchy Psalter (British Library, Egerton 2899)
Quote from source
Kalani ab
Day of Year
Dec 23
Calendar
Kalendarium Breviarii Aberdonensis
Source code
K. Brev. Ab.
Source title
Kalendarium Breviarii Aberdonensis
Editors
Forbes, A. P.
Secondary Title
Kalendar of Scottish Saints
Pages
111-124
Year
1872
Notes
Kal. Brev. Ab. Kalendarium Breviarii Aberdonensis, in Forbes 1872, 111-124
Quote from source
Carani epi cfe
Saint in place-names
Names
Place known as | Name (plus degree of certainty that this saint is commemorated here) |
St Caran's Church, Premnay | St Caran's Church (certain) |