Killianan Burial Ground
Burial Ground (Period Unassigned), Church (Period Unassigned)(Possible)
Site Name Killianan Burial Ground
Classification Burial Ground (Period Unassigned), Church (Period Unassigned)(Possible)
Alternative Name(s) Killianan Graveyard; Killianan Grave Yard
Canmore ID 12619
Site Number NH53SE 4
NGR NH 57162 34660
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/12619
- Council Highland
- Parish Inverness And Bona
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Inverness
- Former County Inverness-shire
NH53SE 4 57162 34660
(NH 5716 3466) Killianan Grave Yard [NAT]
OS 6" map, Inverness-shire, 2nd ed., (1905).
See also NH53SE 3.
The old burial-ground of Killianan, Abriachan (Cill Fhionain - after St. Finan, 550-600 AD (W J Watson 1926)) is considered by the New Statistical Account (NSA). to be the probable site of the original church of Bona. There can be no doubt that formerly a church existed here, and a church at Aberihacyn (Abriachan) is mentioned in 1239 (Aitken 1893).
The graveyard is a square enclosure (W Jolly 1885 from which several tombstones have been removed to the churchyard of Kilmore in Glen Urquhart (J Ross 1888). No very distinct traces of a foundation of a church exist, although Grove ( Grove nd) shows a drawing of ruins at Killianan (Aitken 1893).
It is locally believed that there was a church within the graveyard, but there are now no traces of it. The graveyard is disused.
Visited by OS (N K B), 28 April 1970.
