Field Visit
Date 10 June 1909
Event ID 1095745
Category Recording
Type Field Visit
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1095745
2. Ardvreck. Castle is situated on the N. side of Loch Assynt, about 1½ m. from Inchnadamph, on the neck of a long rocky peninsula. It has been a simple rectangular keep, with a round stair-case tower at the SE. angle, corbelled out on the upper floors to form square rooms, the turret stair to the upper rooms being carried on corbelling in the re-entering angle. In the basement have been three vaulted apartments, that running parallel with the S. wall being merely a passage 3' 9" wide, into which the doorway entered from the E. The first floor has also been vaulted. The castle is in a very ruinous state. The N. wall has entirely disappeared and the E. and W. are fragmentary. It is said to have been built towards the end of the 16th century, and that the Marquess of Montrose was taken to it after his capture in 1650.
See Cast. and Dom. Arch., iii. p. 631 (plan and illus.); New Stat.
Acct. Suth., etc., xv. p. 111.
OS 6-inch map: Sutherland Sheet lxxi.
RCAHMS 1911, visited (AOC) 10th June 1909.
