Burial Ground, Cluny Castle is a Grade C listed building in the Cairngorms National Park local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 20 December 1979.
Burial Ground, Cluny Castle
- WRENN ID
- veiled-arch-bramble
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Cairngorms National Park
- Constituency
- Moray West, Nairn and Strathspey MP: Graham Leadbitter (SNP)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 20 December 1979
- OS grid reference
- NN 642 940
- Coordinates
- 57.01774, -4.23728
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
This is an early 19th-century burial ground, roughly circular in shape, enclosed by a coped rubble wall. An entrance is located on the south side, flanked by square gate piers constructed of tooled rubble and topped with square caps that support cast concrete urns. Running along the south edge, a policy wall from Cluny Castle separates the burial ground from the road, with an entrance that aligns with the burial ground's gateway. This section features square gate piers with crenellated caps and cast-iron gates displaying spearhead detailing.
Within the burial ground is the MacPherson of Cluny enclosure, which contains an arched recess built into the surrounding wall. This recess holds a low-relief marble sarcophagus set upon a deep plinth. The earliest dated tombstone present is from 1801, and the oldest memorial within the MacPherson enclosure commemorates Colonel Duncan MacPherson of Cluny, who died in 1817 and was responsible for building the present Cluny Castle. While primarily associated with the Cluny MacPherson family, the burial ground contains the remains of others. It is suggested that the site may have previously been used as an ecclesiastical site.
Local climate
Burial Ground, Cluny Castle sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,330 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 96% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 73% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 83 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 99% of listed buildings. Of these, 66 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°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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