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Interior-pistol hole embrasures on Second Floor

RC 412

Description Interior-pistol hole embrasures on Second Floor

Date 1967

Collection Records of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS), Edinbu

Catalogue Number RC 412

Category Photographs and Off-line Digital Images

Copies SC 400740

Scope and Content Interior of gun-ports, second floor of Kinkell Castle, near Conon Bridge, Highland Kinkell Castle was built after 1582 when the surrounding lands passed to John Mackenzie of Gairloch. It was extended in about 1700, probably lowered by one floor in 1770, altered in 1855 by William Munro, and finally restored in 1969-70 by Gerald Laing. These two gun-ports on the second floor allow hand-guns to be used to defend the castle. They were probably intended as much for show as for any military purpose. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

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