The database that has been assembled presents the fruits of our research. It contains over 5000 places, 13,000 place-names, and some 750 saints potentially commemorated in these names. The backbone of the database are records drawn from the Ordnance Survey 1st Edition 6" maps, produced from 1843 to 1882. All names we could identify from these maps likely to commemorate saints, and many unlikely to but nonetheless worth considering, have been harvested for the database, and linked to the current map forms of the names, where they are still current. We harvested many other sources for earlier historical forms: earlier maps, monastic cartularies, the Register of the Great Seal, antiquarian accounts. This process of historical harvesting is not complete, but we aim to continue to augment the site through periodic harvesting and uploading of selected documents. We would be happy to hear from individuals willing to help us in filling out our historically recorded forms. At present, as well as information about the places recorded, and historical forms of names, we have identified where possible and applicable the saint or saints who may be commemorated in the place-names. We have been careful to indicate our level of confidence in these identifications. We have also excluded many of the names recorded here as not containing saints' names. Those which have been identified as having saints' names have an [S] symbol after them. There are also entries on individual saints and groups of saints. These records too are being augmented, and should become incrementally fuller over the next few months. One major analytical tool not yet available is the detailed analysis of each name, according to the meaning of its individual elements. This is work in progress.

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Headings

saints of Scotland

History, society and culture

Agents

Broccán [scribe]Broccán ... scribe
(suppl fl. 5th century)
Broccán scríbnid
Irish saint noted for having been a scribe (scríbnid) of Saint Patrick’s household. There are other saints of the same name or name-group (Broc, Broccaid, Broccán) who were said to be related to St Patrick, such as Broccaid of Emlagh (Co. Roscommon) and Broccán of Breachmagh/Breaghey (Co. Armagh), both of whom are given as a son of Patrick’s sister Darerca. Ó Riain has suggested that they may have all originated as a single individual.
See more Fáelán of StrathfillanFáelán of Strathfillan
Fillan of Strathfillan
No short description available
See more Fintan of ClonenaghFintan of Clonenagh
(supp. fl. 6th century)
Fintan of Taghmon
No short description available
See more Máel RubaiMáel Rubai
(d. 722)
Máel Ruba;Sagart Ruadh
Abbot and founder of the monastery of Apor Crossan (Applecross, Scotland), commemorated as a saint in Irish and Scottish sources.
See more TeneuTeneu
(supp. fl. c.6th century)
Teneu, Taneu or Thenew, etc., mother of St Kentigern and a saint in her own right, whose name is attested in a number of church dedications in the Glasgow area. According to the Lives of St Kentigern, she was the daughter of a British king in the north.
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web page identifiers

page name: Saints in Scottish place-names website

page url: https://codecs.vanhamel.nl/Saints_in_Scottish_place-names_website
redirect: https://codecs.vanhamel.nl/Special:Redirect/page/25840
numerical alternative: https://codecs.vanhamel.nl/index.php?curid=25840
page ID: 25840
page ID tracker: https://codecs.vanhamel.nl/index.php?title=Show:ID&id=25840

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C. A., Dennis Groenewegen

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August 2015, last updated: March 2021