Saints in Scottish Place-Names
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St Ninian's Well, Dunnottar
Grid reference
NO 879 839 (assumed location)
Six-figure easting & northing
387900 783900
Latitude
56.946365905816734
Longitude
-2.1989173467028866
County
Kincardineshire
Nearby places
St Ninian's Chapel, Dunnottar (0.14 miles)
St Ninian's Den, Dunnottar (0.14 miles)
St Bridget's Church, Dunnotter (1.29 miles)
St Kiaran's Well, Fetteresso (1.92 miles)
Fetteresso, parish (1.98 miles)
Object Classification
Water
Is linear feature?
No
Notes
See NMRS for the slightly insecure evidence for this well. Though Jervise (1861) recrded it, OS surveyors in 1864 could not find anyone who knew of its existence locally.
Relationships with other places
Adjacent St Ninian's Chapel, Dunnottar
Names
1 head-name linked to this place ?St Ninian's Well
Head name
St Ninian's Well
Place
St Ninian's Well, Dunnottar
Certainty that this name applies to this place
Certain
The status of this name is
Hypothetical
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
Saints in this place-name
Ninian (ns) (certain)
Ninian of Whithorn (certain)
Place-name data
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Modern OS map:
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OS 1840-1880 map:
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OS 1920-1933 map:
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