Saints in Scottish Place-Names
Funded by a Leverhulme Trust Project Grant
St Ninian's Land, Elgin
Grid reference
NJ 210 620 (general (1km))
Six-figure easting & northing
321000 862000
Latitude
57.64124022068686
Longitude
-3.3234792240038233
County
Morayshire
Nearby places
Mary Well, Elgin (0.45 miles)
Lady Hill, Elgin (0.5 miles)
St Giles' Church, Elgin (0.59 miles)
Elgin (St Giles), parish (0.62 miles)
Holy Trinity Church, Episcopalian, Elgin (0.67 miles)
Object Classification
Settlement
Is linear feature?
No
Notes
The vague NGR given is for the burgh of Elgin. The lands are named in part of a description of a land and tenement with garden in the burgh in 1546: 'between the croft called Harveyis-feild, the lands of Robert Innes and Elizabeth Douglas, and the land called Sanct-Ninianis-land' (RMS iii no. 3302).
Relationships with other parishes
Within Elgin (St Giles), parish
Names
1 head-name linked to this place ?St Ninian's Land
Head name
St Ninian's Land
Place
St Ninian's Land, Elgin
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
Sanct-Ninianis-land 1546, RMS
Historic formSanct-Ninianis-land Head nameSt Ninian's Land PlaceSt Ninian's Land, Elgin Certainty that this name applies to this placeCertain SourceRMS, iii no. 3302 Date of citation1546 x 1546 Feature named in sourceterram Notes on the context of this place-nameReprinted 1984 |
Source code
RMS
Source title
Registrum Magni Sigilli (Register of the Great Seal)
Editors
J.M.Thomson et al.
Volume
1-11
Year
1882-1914
Notes
Reprinted 1984
Saints in this place-name
Ninian (ns) (certain)
Ninian of Whithorn (certain)
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
