Burn Of Houstry
Burial Ground (Period Unassigned)
Site Name Burn Of Houstry
Classification Burial Ground (Period Unassigned)
Canmore ID 8124
Site Number ND13NW 7
NGR ND 1462 3556
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/8124
- Council Highland
- Parish Latheron
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Caithness
- Former County Caithness
ND13NW 7 1462 3556.
ND 1462 3556. Grave Yard
OS 6" map, Caithness, 1st ed., (1871)
A small enclosure where four men who had died of cholera were interred about 1849. It has not been used since.
Name Book 1871.
A walled enclosure 8.4m square and 1.3m high. Within is a grave slab erected by John and George Sutherland in memory of their mother, their grandmother, a sister and an uncle who all died in the period 14th to 17th November 1849. The cause of death was cholera. There have been no other interments.
Visited by OS (J M) 9 November 1982.
