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The grave of Daniel MacMicahel is located in the kirkyard of Durisdeer, in Dumfries-shire's Nithsdale. It is located against the south wall of the church. The original flat stone is typical of that erected by Robert Paterosn ('Old Mortality'), and a second stone stands alongside. At Nether Dalveen farm is a third memorial marking the spot where he was actually shot.
The inscription on the Durisdeer stones read as follows:
HERE LIES DANIEL MC
MICHAEL, MARTYR, SHOT
DEAD AT DALVEEN BY
SIR JOHN DALYEL FOR HIS
ADHEREING TO THE ~
WORD OF GOD, CHRIST'S
KINGLY GOVERNMENT IN
HIS HOUSE: AND THE
COVENANTED WORK OF
REFORMATION AGAINST
TYRANNY PERJURY AND
PRELACY. 1685. REV. 12:11"
"AS DANIEL CAST WAS IN LYONS DEN
FOR PRAYING UNTO GOD AND NOT TO MEN
SO LYONS THUS CRUILLY DEVOURED ME
FOR BEAIRING WITNES TO TRUTHS TESTIMONY
I REST IN PEACE TILL JESUS REND THE CLOUD
AND JUDGE TWIXT ME AND THOSE WHO SHED MY BLOOD"
Rev. 12:11 reads:
"And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb, and by the word of their testimony; and they loved not their lives unto the death."
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