Graveyard, Kilmuir Church, Skye is a Grade B listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 5 October 1971.
Graveyard, Kilmuir Church, Skye
- WRENN ID
- ruined-zinc-amber
- 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
- NG 399 718
- Coordinates
- 57.66121, -6.36228
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The graveyard surrounding Kilmuir Church dates back to the site of a former 16th-century parish church and is enclosed by a simple stone and lime wall built in 1832. Within the graveyard are various burial enclosures, including one belonging to the Maclean family, which features a moulded and lugged doorpiece dated 1793. A monument to Flora Macdonald, created by D Davidson of Inverness, was erected in 1861 over her tomb, following instructions from her great-grandson, Captain John Macleod. The tomb was originally within the Macdonalds of Kingsborough enclosure. There are also two late medieval carved tomb slabs, one depicting the effigy of a knight. Two of the medieval tomb slabs are designated as Scheduled Monuments. Information regarding the graveyard is documented in the New Statistical Account and the Royal Commission on Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland inventory of 1914.
Local climate
Graveyard, Kilmuir Church, Skye sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,600 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 5 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 97% of listed buildings. Of these, 3 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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