Publication Account

Date 1982

Event ID 1017828

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Publication Account

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1017828

The 1692 report to the Convention of Royal Burghs noted that Dingwall had neither tolbooth nor bridge (RCRB, iv, 660). Burgh magistrates decided in 1729 that the town was at a considerable loss for want of a 'town house and prison', but that they did not have any suitable property themselves (MacRae, 1974, 214). A burgess disposed of his property to the council and the town house was finished by 1732, complete with council house, withdrawing room, town clerk's chamber and schoolhouse (MacRae, 1974, 215). The town house was extensively remodelled earlier in the present century.

Information from ‘Historic Dingwall: The Archaeological Implications of Development’ (1982).