Tour Scotland photograph of Balnakeil Graveyard, Durness, Scotland. The foundation of a church in Durness may go back to the time of the Red Priest, St Maelrubha. In the 13th century it had to provide light and incense for the cathedral at Dornoch and it contributed to in 1275 the crusade organised by Pope Gregory. The parish church, now roofless and within the burial area, at Balnakeil was built in 1619. Here in 1623 was buried the Rob Roy of the North, Donald Macleod or McMurcho. His sculptured tomb set inside the S wall shows the shooting of a boar with bow and arrow, there are also the emblems of mortality and the inscription.
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