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Campbeltown, modern parish
Grid reference
NR 710 200 (accurate position)
Six-figure easting & northing
171000 620000
Latitude
55.420269132493914
Longitude
-5.619004010572218
County
Argyllshire
Nearby places
St John Street, Campbeltown (0.57 miles)
Kilkerran, former parish Campbeltown (Kintyre) (1.2 miles)
Kilkerran, settlemt, Campbeltown (Kintyre) (1.2 miles)
Kilkerran, ~eccles. Campbeltown (Kintyre) (1.2 miles)
Loch Kilkerran, Campbeltown (Kintyre) (1.24 miles)
Object Classification
Parish (extant in 1975)
Relationships with other parishes
Contains Campbeltown, modern parish
Within Campbeltown, modern parish
Contains Kilchousland, former parish, Campbeltown, Kintyre
Contains Kilkerran, former parish Campbeltown (Kintyre)
Relationships with other places
Contains High Kilkivan, Campbeltown
Contains Islachattan, Campbeltown
Contains Island Davaar, Campbeltown (Kintyre)
Contains Island Davaar, Campbeltown (Kintyre)
Contains Kilchousland, ~eccles. CAM (Kintyre)
Contains Kilchousland, settlement Campbeltown
Contains Kilchrist, ~eccles. Campbeltown
Contains Kilchrist, ~eccles. Campbeltown
Contains Kilchrist, settlement Campbeltown
Contains Kildalloig, ~eccles. Campbeltown
Contains Kildalloig, settlement Campbeltown
Contains Kildonan, ~eccles. Campbeltown
Contains Kildonan, settlement, Campbeltown, Kintyre
Contains Kilkeddan, ~eccles. Campbeltown
Contains Kilkeddan, settlement Campbeltown
Contains Kilkerran, ~eccles. Campbeltown (Kintyre)
Contains Kilkerran, settlemt, Campbeltown (Kintyre)
Contains Kilkivan, eccles. Kilkivan, Campbeltown
Contains Kilkivan, settlement, Campbeltown
Contains Killellan, ~eccles. Campbeltown (Kintyre)
Contains Killellan, ~eccles. Campbeltown (Kintyre)
Contains Killellan, ~eccles. Campbeltown (Kintyre)
Contains Killellan, settlement Campbeltown (Kintyre)
Contains Killeonan, ~eccles. Campbeltown (Kintyre)
Contains Killeonan, ~eccles. Campbeltown (Kintyre)
Contains Killeonan, settlement Campbeltown (Kintyre)
Contains Killeonan, settlement Campbeltown (Kintyre)
Contains Kilmichael, ~eccles. Campbeltown
Contains Kilmichael, settlement, Campbeltown
Contains Kilmichael, settlement, Campbeltown
Contains Kilwhipnach, ~eccles, Campbeltown
Contains Kilwhipnach, settlement, Campbeltown
Contains Loch Kilkerran, Campbeltown (Kintyre)
Contains St Ciaran's Cave, Campbeltown
Contains St John Street, Campbeltown
Parish TLA
CAM
County
Argyllshire
Parish notes
In 1617 a parliamentary commission united the parishes of Kilkerran, Kilmichael and Kilchousland, and in 1621 another commission was empowered to erect a church for serving the united parish (APS iv, 605, 607). The church appears to have been opened only in 1638. At a subsequent period Kilkevan was added to the united parish, afterwards named Lochead, and at a later period Campbeltown, but still known locally as Cean-loch-chille-Chiaran. OPS ii (1), 12.
Names
1 head-name linked to this place ?Campbeltown
Head name
Campbeltown
Place
Campbeltown, modern parish
Certainty that this name applies to this place
Certain
The status of this name is
Current
Is this a current OS form? ?
No
Is this the original referent of the place?
No
Is the association of this name to this object hypothetical?
No