South Boisdale Burial Ground, South Uist is a Grade B listed building in the Na h-Eileanan Siar local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 15 January 1980. Cemetery enclosure.
South Boisdale Burial Ground, South Uist
- WRENN ID
- young-granite-mallow
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Na h-Eileanan Siar
- Constituency
- Na h-Eileanan an Iar MP: Torcuil Crichton (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 15 January 1980
- Type
- Cemetery enclosure
- OS grid reference
- NF 736 173
- Coordinates
- 57.13106, -7.39589
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
South Boisdale Burial Ground in South Uist is a quadrangular cemetery enclosure. It features rubble-built walls with an iron fence and a gate on the east side. The site contains mostly 19th and 20th century stone and concrete monuments, while the principal burial enclosure dates back to the mid-18th century. This enclosure has rectangular-plan rubble-built walls with red ashlar dressings, a base course, and rusticated quoins that continue as square pinnacles. There is a wide, segmental archway on the east side and a pedimented panel on the west. Additionally, there are simple rectangular enclosures to the north and south.
Local climate
South Boisdale Burial Ground, South Uist sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,460 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 98% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 99% of listed buildings.
It averages fewer than one freeze-thaw cycle a year. 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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