Monument record MHG2798 - Burial, Raigmore

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Location

Grid reference Centred NH 8090 2714 (30m by 30m) (Buffered by site type)
Map sheet NH82NW
Old County INVERNESS-SHIRE
Civil Parish MOY AND DALAROSSIE
Geographical Area INVERNESS

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Full Description

Raigmore Graveyard (Disused) (NAT)
OS 6"map, Inverness-shire, 2nd ed., (1903)

Raigmore, from the derivation of the name, is the site of a prehisitoric burial ground (ISSFC 1898).
ONB, however, states that it is a disused burial ground.
ISSFC 1898; Name Book 1870.

A circular enclosure consisting of turf-covered wall-footings 12.0m in diameter and 0.3m in height, situated on the top of a small wooded knoll, around the base of which are traces of walling and ruined buildings. There seems no archaeological evidence to suggest that this was a prehistoric burial ground; and no local information could be obtained to confirm it is a disused burial ground.
Surveyed at 1:2500.
Visited by OS (N K B) 31 October 1966.

Letter in Inverness Courier, 29 August 1972 from Murdo Macaskill on 'Derivation of Raigmore':
"Sir, - Perhaps, among your readers there is an antiquarian or archaeologist who might be interested in what follows. The place name Raigmore was taken to Inverness by the Mackintosh family of the small Raigmore estate in Strathdearn. To-day we stilll have a hamlet and school called Raigbeg, but no place known as Raigmore. The old Mackintosh home is called Press. The late James Dunbar, Edinchat, a native Gaelic speaker, well versed in local tradition, told me that Raigmore meant the 'big circle of death' and Raigbeg the 'little circle of death'. A persistant local tradition has it that there is an old cemetery on a knoll on the farm of Drumbain, half-a-mile east of Press. On this knoll there is a circular wall of earth and stone enclosing a space ten yards in diameter.
… Recently I saw a six inch ordnance map on which the circle on Drumbain, or at least the knoll, was marked Raigmore. Some days later while working near Tombeg I suddenly remembered that a big heather fire on the south face of that hill in 1955 had exposed to view a large ragged circle of boulders about one hundred yards in diameter. To see it properly one had to go up to the top of the Drumbain ridge and look across the little glen of the Alt Cosack through which the railway and main road pass. In the seventeen years that have passed since that fire the heather has again hidden the upper part of this circle but two segments of the lower half can be plainly seen….One line of the proposed new Perth road passes just underneath this big circle but straight through the prehistoric settlement further on." <1>

Sources/Archives (4)

  • --- Text/Publication/Volume: Name Book (County). Object Name Books of the Ordnance Survey. Book No. 5, 72.
  • --- Image/Photograph(s)/Aerial Photograph: B/W Negative. .
  • --- Text/Publication/Article: ISSFC. 1898. 'Excursion to Kyllachy, 24th August 1889', Trans Inverness Sci Soc Fld Club Vol. 4 1888-95, p.56-66. Trans Inverness Sci Soc Fld Club. 56-66. 65.
  • <1> Collection/Project Archive: Archaeology for Communities in the Highlands (ARCH). 2011. Digital site gazetteer and archive for ARCH Community Timeline Project: Strathdearn. Yes. Digital. Site 5.

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Record last edited

Jan 23 2014 4:38PM

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