Burns Mausoleum, Dumfries

In St Michael’s Kirkyard, a short distance from Robert Burns House, is the resting place of the poet. Initially Burns had been buried in a more modest plot in the kirkyard but on 19th September 1815, the poet’s body was exhumed and reinterred in a vault within this Greek-style temple.

Keys for the Mausoleum are available from Robert Burns House, t. 01387 255297

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