Churchyard, Kilmuir Old Church, Hougharry, North Uist is a Grade B listed building in the Na h-Eileanan Siar local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 5 October 1971. Burial ground.

Churchyard, Kilmuir Old Church, Hougharry, North Uist

WRENN ID: crooked-minaret-rush
Grade: B
Local Planning Authority: Na h-Eileanan Siar
Country: Scotland
Date first listed: 5 October 1971
Type: Burial ground
Source: Historic Environment Scotland listing

Description

Quadrangular burial enclosure around hillock; now

extended to west and to south. Original enclosure:

rubble-built walls and corniced square gatepiers, latter

at west end, and flanked by rectangular-plan burial

plots, that to south built of coursed, squared rubble

(other enclosures all rubble-built with squared

dressings). Burial place of John MacCodrum, Gaelic

poet, (monument circa 1894); Clanranald enclosure near

summit dated 1768. Some unworked head stones; carved

monuments mostly 18th-20th century; free-standing cross

with central boss, arms damaged.

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