Saint Patrick & Names along the Antonine wall

[MonsGraupius]

I thought he was from Bannaventa in Northamptonshire.......

Of all the various suggested options I'd say Tafarn-y-Banwen in south Wales sounds like the best fit for Bannauem Taburniae. Close to Roman roads, forts and settlements (and Irish settlements too), and the coastal town of Neath (Nidum) could just be 'Nemthus'....!

...derived from an original Latin medio, we should surely ask "middle of what?"...

Might there be a possibility that 'Medio' was the name of the fort in the middle of the wall?

If we do split Medio from Nemeton in the Ravenna List, we get five names to the east, then 'Medio', then five names to the west. That would make 'Medio' something like Westerwood (geographically the centre). 'Nemeton' would be next named fort to the west of that. Apparently the list doesn't name all the forts though, so it's hard to be sure which one that might be...

When you have 500 Roman names to chose from ... and if you allow yourself to butcher the words, and if you don't require any supporting evidence, and if you ignore the historical evidence ... you will always find a chance location for banavem taburniae almost. But the historical evidence, confirmed by adjoining place name clearly locates St.Patrick's birth place at Old Kilpatrick.

As for Medio - Balmuildy happens to be the middle of the western section of Antonine wall - and except for a small extension on the eastern end, it is only in this section that has distance slabs. This may indicate that this section was built at a different time and Balmuildy was literally the "middle of the (new) wall". It also means that those same a "pace" was two paces got it wrong.