Cnocan Burra Burial Ground, Drumnadrochit is a Grade C listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 17 April 1986. Burial ground. 1 related planning application.

Cnocan Burra Burial Ground, Drumnadrochit

WRENN ID
vacant-cobalt-hawthorn
Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
Highland
Constituency
Inverness, Skye and West Ross-shire MP: Mr Angus MacDonald (LD)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
17 April 1986
Type
Burial ground
OS grid reference
NH 505 293
Coordinates
57.33012, -4.4845
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

Cnocan Burra Burial Ground in Drumnadrochit is a small burial enclosure featuring a variety of tombs from the 19th and 20th centuries, primarily dedicated to the Grants of Shewglie and Lochletter. Notable within the site is a square white marble memorial for the Grant family, which is dated 1816. The burial ground is enclosed by a low coped wall topped with cast-iron spearhead railings.

Local climate

Cnocan Burra 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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