Kilchoan Round Burial Ground, Knoyodart is a Grade B listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 5 October 1971.
Kilchoan Round Burial Ground, Knoyodart
- WRENN ID
- nether-frieze-moth
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Highland
- Constituency
- Inverness, Skye and West Ross-shire MP: Mr Angus MacDonald (LD)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 5 October 1971
- OS grid reference
- NM 778 991
- Coordinates
- 57.02976, -5.66192
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Kilchoan Round Burial Ground is a circular enclosure defined by a dry stone wall. It contains a stone cross with a short, chamfered shaft, as well as a number of tombstones. The burial ground is heavily overgrown. Traditionally, it served as a burial site for both Roman Catholic and Protestant individuals. Further information is provided in Frederick Odo Blundell’s The Catholic Highlands of Scotland, volume ii, pages 68-9.
Local climate
Kilchoan Round Burial Ground, Knoyodart sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 2,380 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 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 64% of listed buildings. Of these, 21 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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