MacPherson of Cluny burial enclosure, detail Digital image of D/31634/cn

Description MacPherson of Cluny burial enclosure, detail Digital image of D/31634/cn

Date 11/5/1998

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

Catalogue Number SC 757522

Category On-line Digital Images

Copy of D 31634 CN

Scope and Content Macpherson of Cluny burial enclosure, Burial-ground, Cluny Castle, Highland This shows the burial enclosure containing memorials for the Macpherson family. The memorial with the Celtic cross in the middle is for Ewen MacPherson of Cluny who died in 1889, with a plaque to his wife, Sarah Justina who died in 1886, at its base. The marble memorials in the background are for other members of the family. 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. Many of the estate buildings were also built when the castle was rebuilt, including gate lodges, stables, meal mill, saw mill and walled gardens. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

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