Burial Ground, Erchless Castle is a Grade C listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 5 October 1971.
Burial Ground, Erchless Castle
- WRENN ID
- steep-storey-thrush
- Grade
- C
- 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
- NH 410 410
- Coordinates
- 57.43219, -4.64925
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
This is a 19th-century burial ground, situated on an earlier site, associated with Erchless Castle. It is a private burial ground, established for members of the Chisholm family. The burial ground contains four tall Celtic cross memorials, along with numerous other tombstones dating from the 19th and 20th centuries.
Local climate
Burial Ground, Erchless Castle sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,220 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 92% 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 67 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 0.2°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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