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Inverkip Street, GREENOCK, PA15 1TF

Home to some local small businesses. Viewed from Inverkip Street.

Some of the oldest memorials in the burial ground (such as those for the Kippen, Anderson and Fullarton families) are located near the far corner, close to the tree; see, for example, the Image For a view of the entrance from the other side, see Image Some time after that picture was taken, an inscribed tablet was placed there: Image In the present view, the stone set in the wall in the left foreground is for Robert Bannatyne. At the lower left corner of the picture is part of the memorial for the merchant Gabriel Wood. For a view of these, and for more information, see Image

There is now little to be seen on the stone by way of an inscription, but this lair marker has some significance in the history of the burial ground: John Kippen was the first person to apply for burial here at Inverkip Street. As George Williamson writes in his "Old Greenock" (Second Series, 1888), "many of the leading inhabitants were buried in this ground. The first applicant was Bailie John Kippen, and after him Bailies Anderson, Fullarton, and Robertson, and at a later period Bailie Roger Stewart". The stone is near the north-eastern corner of the Inverkip Street burial ground. The Anderson and Fullarton lair markers are located nearby, though other members of their respective families have memorials elsewhere in the ground (the memorials for Bailie Roger Stewart and his family are at the other end of the burial ground: there, a pink granite tablet and some adjacent shields are set on the southern wall, close to the opening that leads to the adjoining Duncan Street Burial Ground). The inscription on John Kippen's gravestone is too worn to allow his year of death and his age to be read from it (for that reason, his date of death and his age are given only as 2.3.181- and 7- in the MI records – see the end-note), but he died in 1818, aged 75.

No longer in use, the graveyard is just off the town centre and contains the graves of many Greenock merchants and seafarers.

Between Bruce Street and East Shaw Street.

On Inverkip Street, now appears to be residential. See also Image

On Inverkip Street, viewed from the old burial ground, now appears to be residential. See also Image

Shortly before closing down. See the shop in 2011 Image

In the final stages of being converted from a Homebase store (delayed by the coronavirus outbreak). Homebase in 2018 Image

No longer in use, the graveyard is just off the town centre and contains the graves of many Greenock merchants and seafarers.