The Lochenkit Moor Covenanters – a Newly Discovered Account of a ‘Killing Times’ Incident
TDGNHAS Series III, 83 (2009), 229(WARNING large file size: 5.11 MB)
Abstract
The killing of four Covenanters by Crown forces on Lochenkit Moor near present-day Crocketford in Kirkcudbrightshire in early 1685 was one of the most notorious events of the ‘Killing Times’. Today, a walled enclosure protects the site of their grave and an impressive obelisk nearby records the circumstances of their killing2. However, an account of the incident has been recently discovered in a manuscript book held in the Stewartry Museum in Kirkcudbright, which, if accurate, offers an alternative interpretation of the event.