Inchinnan
Sign in to saveInchinnan (; ) is a small village in Renfrewshire, Scotland. The village is located on the main A8 road between Renfrew and Greenock, just south east of the town of Erskine.
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Place details
- Locality
- Inchinnan
- Region
- Alba / Scotland
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Population
- 1,910
- Timezone
- Europe/London
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Key facts
- UK place.official_name
- Inchinnan
- UK place.country
- Scotland
- UK place.static_image_name
- Inchinnan, Renfrewshire - geograph.org.uk - 500837.jpg
- UK place.static_image_caption
- Inchinnan Village
- UK place.label_position
- left
- UK place.population_ref
- ()
- UK place.os_grid_reference
- NS475691
- UK place.post_town
- Renfrew
- UK place.postcode_area
- PA
- UK place.postcode_district
- PA4
- UK place.dial_code
- 0141
- UK place.gaelic_name
- Innis Fhionghain
- UK place.unitary_scotland
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- village
- Named after
- Finbarr of Cork
- Official name
- Inchinnan
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Population
- +1860
- Time zone
- UTC±00:00
- Image
- Inchinnan, Renfrewshire - geograph.org.uk - 500837.jpg
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Inchinnan (; ) is a small village in Renfrewshire, Scotland. The village is located on the main A8 road between Renfrew and Greenock, just south east of the town of Erskine.
==History== The name of Inchinnan village is derived from the Gaelic word 'Innis', which means an island or low-lying land near a river or stream. The other part of the name is taken from Saint Inan, a 9th-century confessor at Irvine. An ornamental cast iron enclosure near the ford protects "St Conval's Chariot" which is supposedly the stone that brought Saint Conval from Ireland to Inchinnan around 590, and a 12th-century church dedicated to Saint Conval was given to the Knights Templar by David I of Scotland. Another church called 'Hallows Church' replaced it in 1900. The newer church was then replaced by part of the airfield at Abbotsinch. The latest church (Inchinnan Parish) is in the centre of the village. It contains burial stones possibly dating back to around the 9th century. In the same enclosure as St Conval's Chariot, "Argyll's Stone" was supposedly where the 9th Earl of Argyll rested when he was captured in 1685, before he was executed in Edinburgh on the Maiden.