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Scottish Collection: Highland, Inverness, Moray, Western Isles, North Ayrshire, and North Lanarkshire

 This week continues our list of Scottish Collections and includes six different administrative areas.

Grounds of what was the Roshven House, home to the Blackburns by Tony Kinghorn, 
CC BY-SA 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=9183235

Highland

Roshven Burial Ground, Roshven, Lochailort


Inverness-shire

Abernethy Church-Cemetery - Nethy Bridge, Inverness
Banchor Cemetery Newtonmore and Biallidbeg ancient Burial Ground, Inverness
Kingussie Churchyard and Burial Grounds, Inverness

Moray
Grantown on Spey Cemetery, Moray
Inveravon Churchyard, Ballindalloch, Moray

Na h-Eileanan Siar (Western Isles)

Kildalton Kirkyard, Isle of Islay


North Ayrshire
Dreghorn Old Cemetery
Dreghorn Churchyard and New Cemetery, North Ayrshire
Hawkhill Cemetery, Stevenston
New Street Cemetery, Stevenston
Stevenston High Kirk

North Lanarkshire
Benhar Cemetery & Calderhead Cemetery
Clarkston Churchyard, Airdrie
Old Monklands Part 1
Shotts Kirk Part 1
Shotts Kirk Part 2
Stane Cemetery

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