Reay Cross Slab
Location
Reay, Caithness, KW14 7RE
Accessibility and amenities
Access over rough ground.
See full details below.
Entry: free
Reay Cross Slab
Location
Reay Old Church (burial ground),
Reay, Caithness, KW14 7RE
Accessibility and amenities
Access over rough ground
See full details below
Reay Cross Slab
Leac Croise Mheadhrath
Further information
In the 1700s, the cross slab was reused as a grave-marker within the burial ground and inscribed with the name ‘Robert Mackay 17 ’ in the top arm of the cross. The space seems to have been left to be filled with the exact date of his death. The inscription has since been crudely chiselled away, perhaps when the stone was removed from the burial ground and moved to the burial vault around 1915.
The burial vault is part of an earlier church on this site.
The stone is set in to a side wall inside a burial vault in the churchyard. You can see it through the locked grill of the vault.
https://her.highland.gov.uk/Monument/MHG1612
For further information about Reay Old Church see https://her.highland.gov.uk/Monument/MHG1611
Accessibility and amenities
No entry fee
Free parking
Less than 100m from parking
No wheelchair access
The ground in the churchyard is quite uneven.
Accessible by public transport (bus)
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