Saints in Scottish Place-Names
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Leny, former parish, Callander
Grid reference
NN 621 076 (general (1km))
Six-figure easting & northing
262100 707600
Latitude
56.240968681256675
Longitude
-4.225369421422914
County
Perthshire
Nearby places
Tom ma Chisaig, Callander (0.33 miles)
Callander, parish (0.33 miles)
St Kessog's Church, Callander (0.36 miles)
Kilmahog, former parish, Callander (0.72 miles)
Kilmahog, settlement, Kilmahog, Callander (0.72 miles)
Object Classification
Parish (non-extant in 1975)
Is linear feature?
No
Notes
The NGR given is that of a burial enclosure at the confluences of Garbh Uisge and Eas Gobhain. It is not certain, however, that this was the site of the parish kirk.
Relationships with other parishes
Within Callander, parish
Parish details
Leny now part of Callander CLD
Parish TLA
LXY
Medieval diocese
Dunblane
Parish notes
Following upon a dispute between the bishop of Dunblane and Walter earl of Menteith in 1237-38, the earl received permission to erect the priory of Inchmahome, to which he granted, with the bishop’s permission, the church both in parsonage and vicarage. The cure was to be served by a chaplain, who in the 15th c. seems to have been one of the canons of the priory, which appears to have held the fruits of the vicarage (Vet. Mon. no. xci; Inchaffray Liber, xxxi; Arb. Lib. i no. 176 [I cannot find any reference to Leny here, nor in either of the indexes to Arb. Lib. , both names of people and names of places]; ADC 184; APS iv, 344; Fraser, Menteith ii, no. 87; RMS iv no. 2524). Cowan 1967, 130.
Names
1 head-name linked to this place ?Leny
Head name
Leny
Place
Leny, former parish, Callander
Certainty that this name applies to this place
Certain
Is this a current OS form? ?
No
Historic formLanye Head nameLeny PlaceLeny, former parish, Callander Certainty that this name applies to this placeCertain SourceRMS, iv no. 2524 Date of citation1576 x 1576 Feature named in sourcevicarius de 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