Saints in Scottish Place-Names
Funded by a Leverhulme Trust Project Grant
Kilfillan, settlement, Glenluce
Grid reference
NX 204 546 (accurate position)
Six-figure easting & northing
220400 554600
Latitude
54.85382326840355
Longitude
-4.798114540785805
Altitude (metres)
50
County
Wigtownshire
Nearby places
Kilfillan, ~eccles. Glenluce (0.45 miles)
Lady Well, Glenluce (0.63 miles)
Kirkchrist, ~eccles, Glenluce (0.63 miles)
Ladycroft, settlement, Kirkmaiden (Rinns) (1.06 miles)
St Helena Island, Glenluce (1.14 miles)
Object Classification
Settlement
Is linear feature?
No
Notes
Nearby are Kilfillan Bridge and Kilfillan Point (OS Digimap).
Relationships with other parishes
Relationships with other places
Adjacent Kilfillan, ~eccles. Glenluce
Names
1 head-name linked to this place ?Kilfillan
Head name
Kilfillan
Place
Kilfillan, settlement, Glenluce
Certainty that this name applies to this place
Certain
The status of this name is
Current
Is this a current OS form? ?
Yes
Is this the original referent of the place?
No
Is the association of this name to this object hypothetical?
No
Kilphillen 1654, Blaeu
Historic formKilphillen Head nameKilfillan PlaceKilfillan, settlement, Glenluce Certainty that this name applies to this placeCertain SourceBlaeu, Western Galloway Date of citation1654 x 1654 |
Source code
Blaeu
Source title
Atlas Novus
Editors
and publisher: Johan Blaeu
Year
1654
Kilfillan 1843, OS 6 inch first edn.
Historic formKilfillan Head nameKilfillan PlaceKilfillan, settlement, Glenluce Certainty that this name applies to this placeCertain SourceOS 6 inch first edn. Date of citation1843 x 1882 Notes on the context of this place-nameMid to late 19th c. |
Source code
OS 6 inch first edn.
Source title
Ordnance Survey 6 Inch to the Mile, First Edition
Notes
Mid to late 19th c.
Relationships with other place names
Derives from Kilfillan, Kilfillan, ~eccles. Glenluce
Place-name data
The place-name data featured in this resource is copyright of the University of Glasgow.
Map Layers
The map interface was produced using the Leaflet.js library. Attribution for the base layers is as follows:
Default map:
Tiles © Esri — Esri, DeLorme, NAVTEQ, TomTom, Intermap, iPC, USGS, FAO, NPS, NRCAN, GeoBase, Kadaster NL, Ordnance Survey, Esri Japan, METI, Esri China (Hong Kong), and the GIS User Community
Satellite map:
Tiles © Esri — Source: Esri, i-cubed, USDA, USGS, AEX, GeoEye, Getmapping, Aerogrid, IGN, IGP, UPR-EGP, and the GIS User Community
Satellite map with labels:
Base map data © OpenStreetMap contributors, CC-BY-SA, Imagery © Mapbox
Modern OS map:
Ordnance Survey OpenData. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right (2010)
OS 1840-1880 map:
National Library of Scotland Historic Maps
OS 1920-1933 map:
National Library of Scotland Historic Maps
