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Monday, 17 May 2010

Boleskine Graveyard


Two miles along the road from us here at Evergreen we have Boleskine graveyard. Sitting directly across the road from the infamous Boleskine House ( home last century of Aleister Crowley for 15 years, self proclaimed 'most wicked man in the world!)this is a wonderful small graveyard and final resting place for many of the main families who have lived in the area over the centuries - the Frasers, Shaws, McGillivrays. Over the years I have discovered many of the stories linked to some of the graves and come to also understand that infact under the lovely mowed grass that we see today when we look at the graveyard, are the graves of many more buried here. It was therefore with great interest that I discovered last week that four new graves had been revealed (the result of someone's research in to their family history)and what ornate gravestones they are ! One stone has an 'angel of death' spreading it's wings around a skull & crossbones (common on graves from the past)and symbols indicating what perhaps the person had done for a living...

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