Saints in Scottish Place-Names
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St Laurence's Chapel, Little Dunkeld
Grid reference
NN 983 497 (accurate position)
Six-figure easting & northing
298300 749700
Latitude
56.62820926039389
Longitude
-3.6578897909889836
County
Perthshire
Nearby places
Tobar Louris, Little Dunkeld (0.06 miles)
St Muireach's Chapel/Kilmorich eccl. DDA (1.3 miles)
St Muireach's Well, Dunkeld & Dowally (1.31 miles)
Kilmorich, settlement Dunkeld & Dowally DDA (1.36 miles)
Fuaran Chad, Logierait (1.42 miles)
Object Classification
Ecclesiastical
Notes
About 50m N of the well (Tobar Louris) is a level platform measuring 5.5m NW-SE by 4.0m. There is no trace of a building on it and the orientation makes it unlikely to have been the site of a chapel although the OS publication (6" 2nd edn) clearly applies to it (NMRS) The OSA has: "Here [i.e. by Kinnaird House] there are a fountain, and the ruins of a chapel, both dedicated to St Laurence."
Relationships with other parishes
Within Little Dunkeld, parish
Names
1 head-name linked to this place ?St Laurence's Chapel
Head name
St Laurence's Chapel
Place
St Laurence's Chapel, Little Dunkeld
Certainty that this name applies to this place
Certain
The status of this name is
Obsolete
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
St Laurence's Chapel 1793, OSA
Historic formSt Laurence's Chapel Head nameSt Laurence's Chapel PlaceSt Laurence's Chapel, Little Dunkeld Certainty that this name applies to this placeCertain SourceOSA, vol. 6 p381 Date of citation1793 x 1793 Feature named in sourcechapel |
Source code
OSA
Source title
Old Statistical Account
Saints in this place-name
Laurence (ns) (certain)
Laurence, Roman martyr (certain)
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