Saints in Scottish Place-Names
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Fetterangus, former parish, Old Deer
Grid reference
NJ 981 505 (accurate position)
Six-figure easting & northing
398100 850500
Latitude
57.54485085881081
Longitude
-2.0317452260371343
Nearby places
Lady Well, Old Deer (1.62 miles)
Old Deer, formerly Deer, parish (1.75 miles)
Abbey of St Mary of Deer, Old Deer (1.78 miles)
Cummin's Craig, Old Deer (2.05 miles)
All Saints Chapel, Episcopal, Strichen (2.88 miles)
Object Classification
Parish (non-extant in 1975)
Fetterangus Church marked as an antiquity on OS Pathf.. Class I Pictish stone in kirkyard.
Is linear feature?
No
Notes
At this NGR the remains of the former parish kirk, built c. 1120. Foundations remain, as do a Pictish symbol-stone and a holy water stoup (NMRS).
Relationships with other parishes
Within St Fergus, parish (aka Longley, Inverugie) (formerly)
Parish details
Fetterangus now part of Old Deer ODR formerly part of St Fergus STF
Parish TLA
FSX
Medieval diocese
Aberdeen
Parish notes
Fetterangus, now part of Old Deer ODR: this was originally a chapel of Inverugie [Longley, now St Fergus STF], and mentioned as such c.1210 (church of ‘Inuirhugin cum capella de Fetheranus’), when it was granted to Arbroath Abbey by Ralf le Naym (and confirmed to its uses by Bp. Adam of Aberdeen 1207x28 (Arb. Lib. i nos. 199, 201). It later achieved parochial status, the parsonage remaining with the Arbroath Abbey, while the cure was a vicarage perpetual which in the 16th c. formed a single cure with that of Longley (ibid. ii no.601; Ass. 330, 391; RSS v no.2148). Cowan 1967, 65. It was united to ODR in 1618 (OSA xvi, 469). Before 1891 it formed a detached part of BNF (i.e. that part of ODR which formerly lay in BNF - see Shennan 1892, 170). Prior to that union, it seems always to have been a detached part of STF, as the s. part of Lonmay (LOY) and the north part of LON (formerly part of PHD) separate the two. St Fergus (STF) - originally called Longley or Inverugie. In BNF (detached) till 1891.
Names
1 head-name linked to this place ?Fetterangus
Head name
Fetterangus
Place
Fetterangus, former parish, Old Deer
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The status of this name is
Obsolete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?
Maybe
Is the association of this name to this object hypothetical?
No
Fetheranus 1208, Arb. Lib.
Historic formFetheranus Head nameFetterangus PlaceFetterangus, former parish, Old Deer Certainty that this name applies to this placeCertain SourceArb. Lib., i no.199 Date of citation1208 x 1226 Feature named in sourcecapella de |
Source code
Arb. Lib.
Source title
Liber S. Thome de Aberbrothoc
Series
Bannatyne Club
Volume
1 & 2
Year
1848-56
Fetheranus 1239, Arb. Lib.
Historic formFetheranus Head nameFetterangus PlaceFetterangus, former parish, Old Deer Certainty that this name applies to this placeCertain SourceArb. Lib., i no.201 Date of citation1239 x 1247 Feature named in sourcecapella de |
Source code
Arb. Lib.
Source title
Liber S. Thome de Aberbrothoc
Series
Bannatyne Club
Volume
1 & 2
Year
1848-56