Cove And Kilcreggan, Knockderry Castle
Country House (19th Century), Earthwork (Early Medieval)(Possible)
Site Name Cove And Kilcreggan, Knockderry Castle
Classification Country House (19th Century), Earthwork (Early Medieval)(Possible)
Canmore ID 41459
Site Number NS28SW 1
NGR NS 21680 83405
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/41459
- Council Argyll And Bute
- Parish Rosneath
- Former Region Strathclyde
- Former District Dumbarton
- Former County Dunbartonshire
NS28SW 1.00 NS 2168 8340
NS82SW 1.01 NS 21716 83448 Knockderry Castle, North Lodge
NMRS REFERENCE
Owners: Co-Operative Holidays Association
Architects: Alexander Thomson additions
William Leiper
John Honeyman additions
Villa of 1855 greatly extended by William Leiper in 1896 for John Templeton of Templeton Carpet Factory.
Construction (1855)
Desk Based Assessment (4 May 1955)
Dun (?), Knockderry Castle (Site).
A modern mansion (1896) has been built on the site of this 'fort', and has completely obliterated all traces of it. The position is a strong one, on a high point of land between a burn on the S and a ravine to the N, and the work was presumably a dun rather than a fort.
Visited by RCAHMS (KS) 4 May 1955.
Photographic Survey (July 1961)
Photographs of buildings in Cove and Kilcreggan, Dunbartonshire, by the Scottish National Buildings Record in July 1961.
Field Visit (August 1977)
Knockderry NS 216 834 NS28SW
The New Statistical Account records 'the debris of an old Danish or Norwegian fort' on the shore of Loch Long. The site is now occupied by the modern mansion of Knockderry Castle.
RCAHMS 1978, visited August 1977
(NSA, viii, Dunbarton,116; Name Book, Dumbarton, No. 16, p.35)
