Laigh Kirk Burial-ground, Covenanters' Graves

Covenanters Grave(S) (17th Century)

Site Name Laigh Kirk Burial-ground, Covenanters' Graves

Classification Covenanters Grave(S) (17th Century)

Canmore ID 42822

Site Number NS43NW 46

NGR NS 427 379

Datum OSGB36 - NGR

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Council East Ayrshire
Parish Kilmarnock
Former Region Strathclyde
Former District Kilmarnock And Loudoun
Former County Ayrshire

Archaeology Notes

NS43NW 46 427 379

The heads of John Rose and John Shields, Covenanters executed at Edinburgh in 1666, are buried in the Laigh Kirk burial-ground, N of the church. The monument covering them was renewed in 1823.

(See also NS43NW 8 and NS43NW 10 ).

J H Thomson 1903.

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