Saints in Scottish Place-Names
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Church of St Mo Luag, Tarland
Grid reference
NJ 481 043 (accurate position)
Six-figure easting & northing
348100 804300
Latitude
57.1268725392748
Longitude
-2.857366638991842
Altitude (metres)
150
County
Aberdeenshire
Nearby places
Tarland, parish (0 miles)
St Margaret's, settlement, Logie-C'stone (0.78 miles)
Tillyhermack, settlement Coull (1.43 miles)
St John's Well, Logie-Coldstone (1.55 miles)
St John's Well, settlement, LOC (1.55 miles)
Object Classification
Ecclesiastical
Is linear feature?
No
Names
1 head-name linked to this place ?Cill Mo Luaig
Head name
Cill Mo Luaig
Place
Church of St Mo Luag, Tarland
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?
Yes
Is the association of this name to this object hypothetical?
No
Cill Ma-luak 1920, Aberdeen, King's College MS 2276
Historic formCill Ma-luak Head nameCill Mo Luaig PlaceChurch of St Mo Luag, Tarland Certainty that this name applies to this placeCertain SourceAberdeen, King's College MS 2276, fo.. 50r Date of citation1920 x 1930 Feature named in sourcechurch Notes on the context of this place-nameAlexander explains in this notebook that the material has been copied from Diack's notebooks of his fieldwork in the Eastern Highlands, 1920-1930, covering chiefly the districts of Aberfoyle, Strathardle, Braemar, Strathspey and Inverness. Alexander comments that 'over the area named, Diack conversed with the last generation of Gaelic speakers possessing a sure grip of the place-names in their true form'. He goes on to explain that what follows is ordered by district and map number, and includes phonetic transcriptions of 'spoken names as used by Gaelic speakers, nearly all of them elderly people'. We are grateful to Prof. Dauvit Broun for his record of some names from this manuscript. |
Source code
Aberdeen, King's College MS 2276
Author
W. M. Alexander
Source title
Place-Names of the Eastern Higlands from the Note Books of Francis C. Diack
Year
1930 x 1957
Notes
Alexander explains in this notebook that the material has been copied from Diack's notebooks of his fieldwork in the Eastern Highlands, 1920-1930, covering chiefly the districts of Aberfoyle, Strathardle, Braemar, Strathspey and Inverness. Alexander comments that 'over the area named, Diack conversed with the last generation of Gaelic speakers possessing a sure grip of the place-names in their true form'. He goes on to explain that what follows is ordered by district and map number, and includes phonetic transcriptions of 'spoken names as used by Gaelic speakers, nearly all of them elderly people'. We are grateful to Prof. Dauvit Broun for his record of some names from this manuscript.
Saints in this place-name
Lugaid, Mo Lua, Mo Luóc (ns) (certain)
Mo Luóc m. Luchta of Lismore (probable)
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