Old Kilchattan Kirk Graveyard. Luing, including Boundary Wall (Excluding Scheduled Monument No 3808 'Luing, Old Parish Church of Kilchattan 800m NW of Toberonochy') is a Grade B listed building in the Argyll and Bute local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 20 July 1971. Graveyard.

Old Kilchattan Kirk Graveyard. Luing, including Boundary Wall (Excluding Scheduled Monument No 3808 'Luing, Old Parish Church of Kilchattan 800m NW of Toberonochy')

WRENN ID
calm-niche-alder
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Argyll and Bute
Constituency
Argyll, Bute and South Lochaber MP: Brendan O'Hara (SNP)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
20 July 1971
Type
Graveyard
OS grid reference
NM 744 091
Coordinates
56.22089, -5.63945
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

Old Kilchattan Kirk Graveyard is a medieval rectangular burial ground located on Luing. It features a variety of memorials and grave markers, predominantly from the 19th century, with some made of slate. Several gravestones bear Gaelic inscriptions. The graveyard is enclosed by a rubble boundary wall topped with rubble coping stones, and there are square-plan gatepiers at the east wall.

Local climate

Old Kilchattan Kirk Graveyard. Luing, including Boundary Wall (Excluding Scheduled Monument No 3808 'Luing, Old Parish Church of Kilchattan 800m NW of Toberonochy') sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 2,140 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 99% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 99% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 10 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 91% of listed buildings. Of these, 5 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.2°C per decade since 1991.

Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.

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