Place:Buittle Cemetery, Buittle, Kirkcudbrightshire, Scotland

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NameBuittle Cemetery
TypeCemetery
Coordinates54.91965°N 3.86223°W
Located inBuittle, Kirkcudbrightshire, Scotland     ( - 1975)
See alsoBuittle, Kirkcudbrightshire, Scotlandparish in which the cemetery was located until 1975
Dumfries and Galloway Region, Scotlandregional administration 1975-1996
Dumfries and Galloway, Scotlandunitary Council Area since 1996

From Stewartry of Kirkcudbright Memorial Inscriptions pre-1855, vol 1, by Alison Mitchell, published 1990 by the Scottish Genealogy Society, Edinburgh, Scotland:

"In the middle ages the extensive farmlands were served by two churches, each with a burial ground, Buittle at the centre of the parish and Kirkannan (dedicated to St Inan) near the estuary. The two parishes were united to form one before the Reformation, and Kirkannan rapidly decayed. The only village in the parish is Palnackie where a mission hall was built in 1877, renewed as a chapel in 1917. Urr Water forms the eastern boundary of the parish.
"Buittle church was dedicated to St Colman of Lan Eals. The ruin of the name and chancel (probably late 13th century) are at the centre of the burial ground. The present church was built in 1819 at one side and stands up prominently on the crest of the slope."