Burial place of Buchanan of Auchentorlie
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Burial place of Buchanan of Auchentorlie
Image: © Lairich Rig Taken: 26 May 2012
This family vault is located to the ENE of Image According to the inscription on the marble tablet visible at the SW end of vault, "this tomb was restored in 1887". The tablet also bears the dates 1600 and 1887, a crest with motto "Clarior Hinc Honos" ("henceforth the honour [shall grow ever] brighter"), and the text "in memory of the Buchanans of Auchentorlie laid here since the year 1600". John Bruce gives a detailed account of the Auchentorlie and Dunnerbuck lands and their occupants, including a discussion of the Buchanans, on pages 202-215 of his "History of the Parish of West or Old Kilpatrick" (1893). The present-day Auchentorlie House is in Image; see also Image
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Image Location
Latitude
55.926178
Longitude
-4.460389