Robert Lennox in Irelandtoun

Robert Lennox was one of the Covenanters who was shot at Kirkconnel Moor in 1685 by John Grierson of Lag. He refused to let the bodies be buried there, so once the soldiers had gone, friends took the bodies and buried them in their home parishes.

Robert Lennox's Gravestone

Girthon Churchyard

Girthon

Kirkcudbrightshire

NGR - NX 605533

The small headstone to Robert Lennox is located in the old churchyard at Girthon. It is now affixed to the wall of the ruined church. It is likely that the stone was originally carved by Robert Paterson, 'Old Mortality'.

The inscription reads:

WITHIN   THIS    TOMB

LYES THE  CORPS   OF

ROBERT LENNOX SOME

TIME IN IRELANDTOUN

WHO WAS   SHOT  TO

DEATH BY  GRIER   OF

LAGG IN THE PAROCH

OF   TOUNGLAND  FOR

HIS   ADHERENCE   TO

SCOTLANDS  REFORMATION

COVENANTS NATIONAL

AND SOLEMN LEAGUE

1685