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Ordnance Survey - Ayr county, OS Name Books - Ayr county - Volume 63 - Parish of West Kilbride, OS1/3/63

Continued entries/extra info

Sheet VI.8 trace 5 Parish of West Kilbride County of Ayr

At Southannan John Lord Semple, in the time of James IV built
a chapel, dedicated to St Inan; to which his Lordship granted
for the support of a Chaplain in it, an annual rent of ten marks
out of the lands of Meikle and Little Kilruskin, with two soams of
pastorage in the Mains of Southanan and an acre of land on the
North side of the Cemetery, for the Chaplain's Manse: Confirmed
1509" New Stat. Acct. [Statistical Account] and Fullertons Gazetteer

At Southannan, a seat of the Semple family in the northern part of the
parish, John Lord Semple in the reign of James IV built a chapel, which
was dedicated to Saint Annan or Saint Ennan, and Lord Semple granted, for the support of a Chaplain
in it, an annual rent of 10 marks from the lands Kilruskan, and an acre of land on the North side
of the cemetery belonging to the said Chapel, for the Chaplains Manse. Confirmed by the King in June
1509. The ruins of this Chapel are still extant in front of the fine Mansion of Southannan."
There does not appear in the Scotish Kalender, any Saint of the name of [Dinnan], or Innan;
but there was a Scotish saint of the name of Inan, or Finan who is said to have [become]
confessor, St Irvine [---] Chalmer's Caledonia

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Ordnance Survey - Ayr county, OS Name Books - Ayr county - Volume 63 - Parish of West Kilbride, OS1/3/63

This volume contains information on place names found in the parish of West Kilbride.

Ordnance Survey - Ayr county

Ordnance Survey was established in the 18th century to create maps, surveys and associated records for the entirety of Great Britain. These records are arranged by county. This entry has been created to enable searching for Ordnance Survey records for the county of Ayr, which is in the south west of Scotland. The boundaries of the county were altered by the Boundary Commissioners in 1891.

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