Dumfries Martyrs' Monument

St Michael's Kirkyard

St Michael Street

Dumfries

Dumfriesshire

NGR - NX 975757

 

The white-granite monument stands in the back of the kirkyard and around it are some old gravestones to the Covenanters. The monument is inscribed on two sides.

Dumfries Martyrs' Monument

 

The monument commemorates the various martyrs associated with the town. This includes the Pentland Martyrs, who were sentenced to execution in the town, and others:

William Grier[son]

William Welsh

James Kirk[o]