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Stirling Local History Society

Older burial grounds in and about Stirling

There are several old burial grounds in the old parish of Stirling. These pages will tell you a little about each of them including some which are outside the Old Town.
Ballengeich Cemetery

Blackfriars, Stirling

Cambuskenneth Abbey

Erskine Mary-kirk

Stirling, Holy Rude Kirkyard

Snowdon Cemetery

Valley Cemetery and Mar’s Wark Garden
Useful Links

For the restoration of the Valley Cemetery and a video walk-round of the adjacent areas see http://www.oldtowncemetery.co.uk/video.html

 Logie Old Graveyard Group  (www.logieogg.com) supports one of the old graveyards nearest to  Stirling with a particularly interesting collection of late seventeenth and
early eighteenth century stones.

For information about recording and conserving
gravestones and graveyards in Scotland and many other useful links see;  http://www.scottishgraveyards.org.uk/index.shtml

Further Information

The Society has co-published a booklet called One Grand Whole, Gravestones and Monuments in Stirling's Old Town Cemeteries by John G. Harrison. It costs £2.00 and can be purchased at the Holy Rood Church at the Top of the Town or at Society meetings. 

Cruden, S., 1973. CambuskennethAbbey, Stirlingshire, HMSO.

Gifford, J. and Walker, F.A., 2002. Buildings of Scotland; Stirling and Central Scotland, Yale UP.

Harrison, J.G., 1990. ‘Some Early Gravestones in the Holy Rude Kirkyard, Stirling’, Forth Naturalist and Historian,
 
vol.13, pp.79-96.

 John G Harrison, 2010. ‘The Kirkyard and Cemeteries beside Stirling Castle’, Forth Naturalist and Historian, volume 33,
49-59.

Mitchell, J.F. and Mitchell, S., 1972. Monumental inscriptions (pre 1855) in East Stirlingshire, Scottish Genealogy Society. 

Page R. and Page P., 1996. ‘Blackfriars of Stirling’, Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, vol. 126,
pp.881-898.

Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland, 1966. Stirlingshire, Edinburgh.

Stirling Council Library Service, 2002. Stirling’s Talking Stones, Stirling.

Willsher, Betty, 1985. Understanding Scottish Graveyards, Edinburgh,

Bath B. and Wilsher, B. 1996. ‘Emblems from Quarles on Scottish Gravestones’ in Emblems and Art History, Glasgow
Emblem Studies
, vol. 1. pp. 169-201.
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