The Auld Aisle Cemetery is located in Kirkintilloch

Kirkintilloch

Kirkintilloch is a town and former burgh in East Dunbartonshire, Scotland. It lies on the Forth and Clyde Canal, about eight miles northeast of central Glasgow...

, East Dunbartonshire

East Dunbartonshire

This article is about the East Dunbartonshire council area of Scotland. See also East Dunbartonshire .East Dunbartonshire is one of the 32 council areas of Scotland. It borders onto the north-west of the City of Glasgow. It contains many of the suburbs of Glasgow as well as containing many of...

, Scotland. The cemetery is protected as a category A listed building, and includes graves dating back to the eighteenth century.

History

The cemetery formed the grounds of St Ninian's Church, a pre-Reformation

Scottish Reformation

The Scottish Reformation was Scotland's formal break with the Papacy in 1560, and the events surrounding this. It was part of the wider European Protestant Reformation; and in Scotland's case culminated ecclesiastically in the re-establishment of the church along Reformed lines, and politically in...

 parish church. St Ninian's was abandoned after 1659, following the division of the old parish of Lenzie

Lenzie

Lenzie is a small town by the Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway in the East Dunbartonshire council area of Scotland. It is about six miles north-east of Glasgow city centre and one mile south of Kirkintilloch. It has a population of about 10,000.-Name:...

 into Cumbernauld

Cumbernauld

Cumbernauld is a Scottish new town in North Lanarkshire. It was created in 1956 as a population overspill for Glasgow City. It is the eighth most populous settlement in Scotland and the largest in North Lanarkshire...

 and Kirkintilloch. The watchtower dates from the early 18th century, and the gate lodge was built when the cemetery was extended in 1863.

Notable burials

• Alexander Bain
  Alexander Bain (inventor)
  Alexander Bain was a Scottish inventor and engineer who was first to invent and patent the electric clock. Bain installed the railway telegraph lines between Edinburgh and Glasgow.-Early life:...
  
   (1811–1877), first to invent and patent the electric clock.
• Nicola Ann Raphael
  Nicola Ann Raphael
  Nicola Ann Raphael was a 15 year old Scottish schoolgirl who committed suicide after enduring years of bullying because she dressed in a Goth style. Her death on June 24, 2001 and allegations of bullying at her school, Lenzie Academy, led to wide coverage in the local and national press...
  
   (1985–2001), prominent bullycide
  Bullycide
  The term bullycide is a portmanteau word first used in 2001 by Neil Marr and Tim Field in their book Bullycide: Death at Playtime. It refers to suicide attributable to the victim having been bullied, either in person or via social media. Bullycide has also been defined as the killing of the bully...
  
  victim.