What is recorded here

Cortachy Castle, Private Burial Ground, is a 19th century burial ground near Cortachy Castle in Angus, Scotland. The private boundary still holds the dead and excludes most living people. What is buried there is no longer obvious, but the restraint suggests the family wanted to keep its own story and its own grief away from strangers.

Scotland's National Record of the Historic Environment records Cortachy Castle, Private Burial Ground as Burial Ground (19th Century) (1888). The official map says its point is accurate as follows: NGR given to the nearest 1m. The record does not by itself mean that the public may enter the place.

Cortachy Castle, Private Burial Ground is associated with the Gordon family, who held Cortachy Castle in the 19th century. The burial ground is historically significant as it reflects the private funerary practices of Scottish landed families during that period.

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