Kilmuir Burial Ground is a Grade B listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 25 March 1971.
Kilmuir Burial Ground
- WRENN ID
- stubborn-thatch-azure
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Highland
- Constituency
- Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross MP: Jamie Stone (LD)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 25 March 1971
- OS grid reference
- NH 676 501
- Coordinates
- 57.52189, -4.2109
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
This is a burial ground associated with Kilmuir Old Parish Church, situated near Kilmuir. The burial ground itself is a listed building. It contains a variety of tombs dating from the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries, characterised by a coped wall. Kilmuir Old Parish Church, designated as Scheduled Monument No. 5466, is excluded from this listing. The listing record and statutory address were updated in 2015; it was previously listed as ‘Kilmuir Old Church and Burial Ground’. A map from 1869, published in 1871 by the Ordnance Survey, depicts the area.
Local climate
Kilmuir Burial Ground sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 990 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 80% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 60% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 54 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 94% of listed buildings. Of these, 36 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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