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Killearn, Buchanan Monument
Commemorative Monument (18th Century)
Site Name Killearn, Buchanan Monument
Classification Commemorative Monument (18th Century)
Canmore ID 44584
Site Number NS58NW 14
NGR NS 52273 85975
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/44584
- Council Stirling
- Parish Killearn
- Former Region Central
- Former District Stirling
- Former County Stirlingshire
NS58NW 14 52273 85975
Monument [NAT]
OS (GIS) MasterMap, October 2009.
Erected 1788 in honour of the scholar and historian George Buchanan, born at Moss near Killearn in 1506. It is an obelisk of grey sandstone 103' high, on a base 19' square. It was repaired in 1850.
RCAHMS 1963, visited 1952.
NMRS REFERENCE:
Architect: James Craig, 1788
Stirlingshire Inventory no.279 - text and photograph
EXTERNAL REFERENCE:
Scottish Record Office:
GD/220/6/1585/48
Building of Buchanan's monument. Receipt for 5 guineas as Lord Graham's subscription for the monument, 1788
