View through entrance gateway from S Digital image of D/31628/cn

Description View through entrance gateway from S Digital image of D/31628/cn

Date 11/5/1998

Collection Records of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS), Edinbu

Catalogue Number SC 757518

Category On-line Digital Images

Copy of D 31628 CN

Scope and Content Burial-ground, Cluny Castle, Highland, from south This shows the entrance gateway to the burial-ground. The two crenellated (battlement-style) piers in the foreground break the Cluny Castle estate boundary wall and the two gate piers in the middle that support cast concrete urns break the coped rubble wall of the graveyard. The graveyard was not confined to members of the Macpherson of Cluny family and it may be the location of an earlier ecclesiastical site. The earliest dated headstone is 1801 and the earliest dated mural (on the wall) monument to the Macpherson family is the sarcophagus for Colonel Duncan Macpherson who died in 1817. Cluny Castle was built in 1805 for the Macphersons of Cluny and stands on the site of an earlier castle which was destroyed by fire in 1746. William Laidlaw Carruthers, Inverness, designed the north-west wing and the Queen Anne Revival-style porch c.1890. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

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