Watch house, Old Kilmore Burial Ground
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Watch house, Old Kilmore Burial Ground
Image: © Alpin Stewart Taken: 10 May 2015
Watch houses are a feature of many Scottish graveyards and enabled a watch to be kept over newly buried corpses to protect them from the attention of the Resurrection Men seeking bodies for dissection.
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Image Location
Latitude
57.332417
Longitude
-4.467623