Kilmartin Stones

PricingFreeFree for all visitors

Free entry for everyone

Entry

Free for everyone

Pricing details

Free entry for everyone; no membership card is needed.

ParkingParking not known

The Trust's page does not say how parking is charged.

Parking details

Historic Scotland names no parking: the stones are in Kilmartin Churchyard, in the village of Kilmartin off the A816. A small car park beside the church and a roadside car park on the A816 about 60 m away serve the village; no official charge or free statement exists, so the status is recorded as unknown. Kilmartin Museum, next door, has its own car park for museum visitors.

Driving pin: the car park beside Kilmartin Church, 24 m from Historic Scotland's own pin in the churchyard. Historic Scotland gives journey planners only.

About

The churchyard of Kilmartin Church holds more than 20 finely carved stones made between the 900s and the 1600s, a record of the glen long after its prehistoric monuments were built. The graveyard's rounded shape hints at a much older religious site, perhaps linked to the early medieval stronghold at Dunadd. The largest group lines the walls of the Campbell burial aisle, built for Bishop Neil Campbell of the Isles, who died in 1627. The finest are West Highland grave slabs of the 1300s and 1400s, long tapering stones carved with scrollwork and interlace, warriors and clerics, crosses and swords, probably cut from stone quarried around Loch Awe. Seven more lie in the open Poltalloch Enclosure, built in the 1700s for the Malcolms of Poltalloch: West Highland slabs, two effigies of armed warriors and two tombstones of the 1600s. Three crosses that once stood in the church are now shown in Kilmartin Museum next door, which has its own tickets.

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Kilmartin StonesOpen all year; an unstaffed churchyard site, no hours published

Opening times may change at short notice.

Historic Scotland: 'Kilmartin Stones are free to visit and open year-round.' No hours, closures or notices on 21 October 2026; not on Historic Scotland's closures page. Historic Scotland's directory lists it as 'Kilmartin Glen: Kilmartin Stones'.

The stones are in two displays in the churchyard: the largest group inside the Campbell burial aisle, a small roofed building, and seven memorials in the open Poltalloch Enclosure. Historic Scotland notes that the three crosses once shown inside the church have been moved to Kilmartin Museum next door, which is run separately and charges for entry; the museum is open daily 10:00 - 17:00 until 31 October, then Wednesday to Sunday 11:00 - 16:00 until it closes for the winter on 20 December.

Photo: Carved medieval grave slabs and warrior effigies laid in the stone-walled Poltalloch Enclosure in Kilmartin churchyard, with gravestones and fields behind. Postdlf, CC BY-SA 3.0. Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Poltalloch_Stones_02.jpg. Licence: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0. Resized and cropped for display; derivatives retain the source licence.