Wardlaw Mausoleum

03/01/2026

Greetings from the frozen North ❄️

01/01/2026

Happy New Year from all of us at Wardlaw Mausoleum!

Lang may yer lum reek in 2026! 🎉🥳🎊

28/12/2025

Wardlaw Mausoleum is now owned and run by Aird Community Trust. To go along with this, we have now got a new online donation page set up.

All donations will help us care for the building and cover the running and maintenance costs. We are also planning to carry out repairs to the building and improve the exhibition inside.

https://www.peoplesfundraising.com/donation/wardlaw-mausoleum

24/12/2025

We hope everyone has a joyful festive season.

2025 has been a year of change for Wardlaw Mausoleum with the building moving into the ownership of Aird Community Trust. Thank you to everyone for your continued support, and we look forward to seeing what 2026 will bring.

12/12/2025

We were glad to welcome our friends from Kirkmichael Trust to have a look at our much asked about Claymore Stone.

We are now able to tell visitors it is for Donald MacDonald son of Rorie who died in 1601. Click on the images in the post for more information.

Find out more about their Claymore Stone research here: https://www.kirkmichael.info/Claymore_Stones.html

07/11/2025

If you want to find out more about what Aird Community Trust taking ownership of the mausoleum means, join us tomorrow from 10am.

Join us this Saturday for an Informal Mausoleum Open Day!

Come along and celebrate ACT taking ownership of the mausoleum and find out more about the history and importance of the building.

All are welcome and refreshments will be served.

The mausoleum isn't heated so wrap up warm!

19/10/2025

We're glad to have secured the future of the mausoleum. For the time being, not much will change for our visitors, the masoleum is still open on request.

A historic family mausoleum with links to the popular historical time travel Outlander book and TV series has passed into community ownership.

18/10/2025

Did you spot the Mausoleum and Erik on STV News last night?!

If you would like to find out more about the mausoleum now being under community ownership, Aird Community Trust is hosting a reception for the community in the mausoleum at 10am on Saturday the 8th of November.

17/10/2025

We're glad the mausoleum has now been transferred to Aird Community Trust from Lovat Estates.

The mausoleum is where the coffin of Simon ‘Old Fox’ Lovat, who was beheaded after Culloden, can be found

16/10/2025

Wardlaw Mausoleum Trust is delighted that the mausoleum has been successfully transferred from Lovat Estates Ltd to Aird Community Trust. We thought we had secured ownership back in 1998 but a change in the law nullified the tile. We are grateful to Simon Lord Lovat for agreeing to the transfer and generously covering his own legal costs. Aird Community Trust will continue to operate the mausoleum in the same way that WMT has done in recent years, providing visits on request to locals and tourists. ACT will also continue to help with visits by Highland and Scottish tour guides and companies, many as part of an Outlander tour or holiday.

WMT will be wound-up and its funds gifted to ACT to help with the care of the mausoleum, over 35 years since the trust was formed in 1990. A job well done!

Aird Community Trust has recently taken ownership of Wardlaw Mausoleum, in Kirkhill, from Lovat Estates Ltd.

The mausoleum was restored by Wardlaw Mausoleum Trust in 1998. It recently came to light that, due to a change in the law, the mausoleum was still owned by Lovat Estates Ltd. They have generously passed ownership to Aird Community Trust and worked closely with us on the legal steps to finalise the transfer.

The mausoleum sits in Wardlaw Graveyard in Kirkhill and was the burial place of the leaders of Clan Fraser of Lovat. It was built on the end of the previous Wardlaw Church in 1634 and extended by the famous Simon 11th Lord Lovat, known as ‘The Old Fox’ in 1722. He was later beheaded at the Tower of London in 1747 for his part in the Jacobite Rebellion led by Bonnie Prince Charlie. Simon’s coffin is one of six lead coffins in the crypt. The Mausoleum attracts around 4,500 tourists a year, many of whom are fans of Outlander. Lord Lovat is portrayed as the grandfather of central character Jamie Fraser.

We would like to invite ACT members and the local community to a reception at the mausoleum at 10am on Saturday the 8th of November.

The mausoleum will be run by members of ACT and will continue to provide visits for local people and tourists. Access is available most days on demand and by contacting [email protected].

09/04/2024

26/02/2023

Spectacular show from the Aurora Borealis tonight 😍