Killianan Burial Ground is a Grade C listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 17 April 1986.
Killianan Burial Ground
- WRENN ID
- hushed-glass-scarlet
- 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
- OS grid reference
- NH 571 346
- Coordinates
- 57.37988, -4.37744
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
This is a small burial ground, partially enclosed by a low drystone wall. The site contains various tombstones, predominantly dating to the 19th century, although a single slab from around 1400 also survives. The burial ground is associated with a site of a church dating to around AD 680 on the shores of Loch Ness, dedicated to St. Adamnan or Eonan, Abbot of Iona. The "Life of St. Columba," written by Adamnan, contains the first recorded mention of the Loch Ness monster. Further details are documented in the Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland.
Local climate
Killianan Burial Ground sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,080 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 87% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 64% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 58 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 97% of listed buildings. Of these, 40 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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