Archaeology Notes

Event ID 668410

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NJ61SE 1 66483 11426

(NJ 6648 1143) Tillycairn Castle (NR)

OS 6" map, (1959)

Tillycairn Castle is a fine example of the L-plan, probably built about 1550. It measures 41 1/2 feet by 37 feet, with a circular staircase tower in the re-entrant. The main building was four storeys high, the wing being one storey higher. Macfarlane (1906-8) records that the castle was ruinous in 1722. In 1921 the building was in good repair despite being used as a hen-house.

D MacGibbon and T Ross 1887-92; W Macfarlane 1906-8; W D Simpson 1921; W D Simpson 1949.

Tillycairn Castle, as described, illustrated and planned by Simpson (1921; 1949).

Visited by OS (RL) 5 February 1968.

P Yeoman: watching brief for SDD March 1980.

(Newspaper references cited).

NMRS, MS/712/57.