Kennedy's Cairn, Mull Of Galloway is a Grade C listed building in the Dumfries and Galloway local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 16 March 1994. Cairn.
Kennedy's Cairn, Mull Of Galloway
- WRENN ID
- carved-turret-scarlet
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Dumfries and Galloway
- Constituency
- Dumfries and Galloway MP: John Cooper (Con)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 16 March 1994
- Type
- Cairn
- OS grid reference
- NX 146 305
- Coordinates
- 54.63552, -4.8737
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Kennedy's Cairn, located at the Mull of Galloway, was built after 1848. It is a cairn made of cemented rubble, featuring a conical shape with a flat top. There is a later cement base, and on the eastern side, six protruding rubble stones form steps leading up. Additionally, there is a cemented rectangular panel on the northern side.
Local climate
Kennedy's Cairn, Mull Of Galloway sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,240 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 92% 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 1 freeze-thaw cycle a year, fewer than 99% of listed buildings. Of these, 1 follows at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°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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