 The east end of the graveyard, which does not have headstones or individual graves, is the site of a mass burial plot for the victims of the Black Death plague of 1348 and has never been reopened.Sillerburn Cemetery, on Balnald Road, was opened in the 1950s and, as of 2019, contains around fifty graves.Kirkmichael parish was first linked with Straloch, then with Glenshee/Bridge of Cally and finally with Rattray, with the minister now using Rattray manse.