Kirkhill ( Scottish Gaelic: ''Cnoc Mhoire'', meaning "Big Hill") is a small village and civil parish in the

Highland Highlands or uplands are areas of high elevation such as a mountainous region, elevated mountainous plateau or high hills. Generally speaking, upland (or uplands) refers to ranges of hills, typically from up to while highland (or highlands) is ...

council area of Scotland. It is 10 miles (16 km) west of

Inverness Inverness (; from the gd, Inbhir Nis , meaning "Mouth of the River Ness"; sco, Innerness) is a city in the Scottish Highlands. It is the administrative centre for The Highland Council and is regarded as the capital of the Highlands. Histori ...

and 2 miles (3.2 km) southeast of Beauly, close to the south opening of the Beauly Firth. The village of Kirkhill encompasses the historic parish of Wardlaw to its north, the two areas merging in 1618. Kirkhill also has a village hall and primary school, Kirkhill Primary, with a catchment area including Inchmore,

Lentran Lentran is a small hamlet in the Highland council area of Scotland. It is 1.8 miles (3 km) east of Kirkhill and 5 miles (8 km) west of Inverness, on the south shore of the Beauly Firth. The area was served by Lentran railway station a ...

, Drumchardine,

Cabrich Cabrich (Scottish Gaelic: ''Cabarach'', meaning "Place of Tree-trunks") is a scattered crofting community in the Highland council area of Scotland. It is 1.5 miles (2.4 km) northeast of the village of Kiltarlity, and around 11 miles (17 ...

, Bunchrew, Clunes and Newtonhill.

Wardlaw Mausoleum

Kirkhill is home to the Wardlaw Mausoleum, built in 1634 as the resting ground for the

Frasers of Lovat The following is a list of the chiefs of the Clan Fraser of Lovat, in chronological order. The Chiefs of Clan Fraser often use the Gaelic patronym MacShimidh, meaning Son of Simon. Simon is the favoured family name for the Chiefs of Clan Frase ...

and used by the family until the early 19th century. In the 1990s, the Wardlaw Mausoleum Trust was formed to repair the building, then in heavy disrepair. In 1722, the 11th Lord Lovat raised the roof of the mausoleum and constructed a tower overhead. After his execution for the part he played in the

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, legend had it the Lord Lovat's body was moved in secret, from the

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in London to the family mausoleum. However, analysis of his supposed skeleton by the University of Dundee in 2018, declared the bones were of a young woman. File:Kirkhill Higland.jpg, The B9164, the main street running through Kirkhill File:The Kirkhill Mausoleum, Kirkhill, Nr, Inverness, Scotland - geograph.org.uk - 101143.jpg, The Wardlaw Mausoleum, historic resting place of Clan Fraser of Lovat

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{{Authority control Populated places in Inverness committee area Civil parishes of Scotland