Saints in Scottish Place-Names
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Kilbarchan, parish
Grid reference
NS 401 632 (accurate position)
Six-figure easting & northing
240100 663200
Latitude
55.835514522714774
Longitude
-4.553549146871084
Nearby places
Kilbarchan, eccles. Kilbarchan (0 miles)
St Catherine's Chapel, Kilbarchan (0.09 miles)
Lawmarnock, settlement Kilbarchan (1.49 miles)
St Brydes, Kilbarchan (1.82 miles)
Bride's Mill, Lochwinnoch (1.86 miles)
Object Classification
Parish (extant in 1975)
Is linear feature?
No
Notes
NGR for Kilbarchan parish church, in whose eighteenth-century churchyard wall is embedded a twelfth-century tombstone (NMRS).
Relationships with other places
Contains Kilbarchan, eccles. Kilbarchan
Contains Lawmarnock, settlement Kilbarchan
Contains Old Patrick Water, linear feature
Contains St Bride's Burn, Lochwinnoch/Kilbarchan
Contains St Bride's Chapel, Kilbarchan
Contains St Bride's Chapel, Kilbarchan
Contains St Brydes, Kilbarchan
Contains St Catherine's Chapel, Kilbarchan
Parish TLA
KBA
County
Renfrewshire
Medieval diocese
Glasgow
Names
1 head-name linked to this place ?Kilbarchan
Head name
Kilbarchan
Place
Kilbarchan, 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
Kilbrachane 1506, RMS
Historic formKilbrachane Head nameKilbarchan PlaceKilbarchan, parish Certainty that this name applies to this placeCertain SourceRMS, ii no. 3020 Date of citation1506 x 1506 Feature named in sourceparish 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
Relationships with other place names
Derives from Kilbarchan, Kilbarchan, eccles. Kilbarchan
Place-name data
The place-name data featured in this resource is copyright of the University of Glasgow.
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Modern OS map:
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OS 1840-1880 map:
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OS 1920-1933 map:
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