Greyfriars Churchyard

Greyfriars Kirkyard is a historic burial ground in the Old Town of Edinburgh, Scotland, attached to Greyfriars Kirk. The churchyard dates from 1562 and contains the graves of many notable figures from Scottish history, including the Covenanters, who signed the National Covenant there in 1638. It is also famous as the resting place of Greyfriars Bobby, a Skye Terrier who supposedly guarded his master's grave for fourteen years, and whose story has been commemorated in a small statue outside the churchyard gate. The kirkyard is noted for its ornate seventeenth-century funerary monuments and has a reputation as one of the most haunted locations in Edinburgh.