Old Kilmore Burial Ground, Drumnadrochit is a Grade C listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 5 October 1971. Burial ground, watch-house.

Old Kilmore Burial Ground, Drumnadrochit

WRENN ID
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Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
Highland
Constituency
Inverness, Skye and West Ross-shire MP: Mr Angus MacDonald (LD)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
5 October 1971
Type
Burial ground, watch-house
OS grid reference
NH 515 295
Coordinates
57.33208, -4.46748
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The Old Kilmore Burial Ground in Drumnadrochit is a walled burial ground that encloses the ruins of a former parish church, which dates back to 1630. Within the burial enclosure, there is a mural memorial dedicated to Aemelia Grant from 1759.

The site features a small rectangular watch-house made of rubble, which includes an entrance, a flanking door, and an end stack, all topped with a slate roof. The burial ground is surrounded by roughly coped rubble walls on three sides, while the fourth side, which faces the road to the west, is enclosed by a low bullfaced rubble wall topped with cast-iron spearhead railings. There are two pairs of square rubble gate piers from the later 19th century, with the central pair featuring low coped quadrants and similar terminal end piers, all capped with shallow pyramidal tops.

Local climate

Old Kilmore Burial Ground, Drumnadrochit sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,200 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 91% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 78% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 66 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 99% of listed buildings. Of these, 49 follow 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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