Old Kilmore Traditional Cache
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A standard film canister cache in a interesting old graveyard beside the village of Drumnadrochit, Parking is avaliable in front of the graveyard.
OLD KILMORE CEMETERY
The remains of Old Kilmore church and the cemetery that surrounds them are situated east of Drumnadrochit village on level ground between the rivers Enrick and Coiltie, above their confluence at Urquhart Bay. A geological map shows their site to be at the eastern end of a fault that follows the line of Glen Urquhart.
A church seems to have been at this site since the Middle Ages. About 1620 a minister named Alexander Grant 'was elected during the existence of that hybrid Episcopacy which was established by James the Sixth in the year 1612.' Grant set about repairing the old church so that we now find, set into the old wall, a stone bearing his initials, the date 1630 and the words 'DOMUS DEI'. The cemetery contains several old grave slabs, mainly illegible, which may have been intended traditionally to protect the occupants from the attentions of wolves. A much more recent grave contained the remains of Pte Roderick MacGregor, V.C. who seems to have had a touch of Rambo about him, apparently fighting (and winning!) the Crimean War single-handed. An Inverness man, he settled at Bunloit, Glenurquhart, after his Crimean exploits. His grave bears poppy wreaths placed there by the British Legion. The cemetery also contained an example of the Celtic art of George Bain on a headstone he designed for the grave of his sister-in-law, Georgina MacKintosh.
Thanks to Highland Council for permission to place this cache
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haqre ebpx ng onfr bs byq puhepu jnyy
Cyrnfr ercynpr pnershyyl evtug haqre ebpx. gunax lbh
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