Saints in Scottish Place-Names

St Colman's Church, Belhelvie

Grid reference

NJ 969 196 (accurate position)

Six-figure easting & northing

396900 819600

Latitude

57.26724753797015

Longitude

-2.051404590467788

Altitude (metres)

35

County

Aberdeenshire

Nearby places

St Colm's Well, Belhelvie (0 miles)

Belhelvie, parish (0 miles)

Foveran, parish (2.94 miles)

St Peter's Well, Foveran (3.05 miles)

Cowstane Hirst, Foveran (4.22 miles)

Object Classification

Antiquity

Ecclesiastical

Is linear feature?

No

Notes

But note that the Aberdeen Breviary (Macquarrie, 248) has a record for a St Colman, bishop and confessor. A St Colmnan is celebrated on 16 October, while on 17 October, the feast of St Regulus is celebrated, when there has been no celebration for him in Lent, and added on (perhaps as a typographers error with respect to the previous day's celebration: 'et Colmanus habetur patronus apud Balheluy' (and Colmán is held as patron of Belhelvie). This is Belhelvie Old Parish Church, now in ruins. 'The holy water stoup from the medieval church is in the garden of Belhelvie Manse' (NMRS, in 1935).

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Relationships with other parishes

Within Belhelvie, parish

Names

1 head-name linked to this place ?

St Colman's Church

Saints in this place-name

Columb, Colmán, Commán, Mo Cholmóc, Mo Chommóc, Mo Chumma, Columba, Columbanus etc (ns) (certain)

Columb Cille m. Feidlimid (maybe)