Kilchoan Square Burial Ground, Knoydart is a Grade B listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 5 October 1971.
Kilchoan Square Burial Ground, Knoydart
- WRENN ID
- kindled-hearth-crow
- 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
- 57.02961, -5.66199
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Kilchoan Square Burial Ground, located in Knoydart, is a square enclosure defined by dry stone walls. It contains three recumbent tombs featuring Celtic decorative detailing. Within the burial ground, which is now heavily overgrown, sits a stone font or piscina. The burial ground was traditionally used for Roman Catholic burials and occupies the site of an earlier chapel, as shown on the first edition Ordnance Survey map of 1875. Further information is provided in Frederick Odo Blundell’s The Catholic Highlands of Scotland, volume ii (1917), pages 68-9.
Local climate
Kilchoan Square Burial Ground, Knoydart 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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