Field Visit
Date 12 July 1909
Event ID 1096001
Category Recording
Type Field Visit
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1096001
105. Skelbo Castle.
Skelbo Castle occupies an imposing site over- looking Loch Fleet, at the edge of a high bank. The castle is a complete ruin, and of the N. wall only does any considerable portion remain. It has occupied the NW. corner of a walled enclosure, and has been a rectangular structure measuring interiorly 43' from E. to W. and 29' 6" from N. to S., with walls 4' 9" in thickness. The wall of the enclosure, which is 4' 6" in thickness, in great measure remains standing. Abutting on the SW. end of the castle has been a range of buildings, now completely ruined. The castle formerly belonged to the family of Sutherland of Duffus.
See Origines, ii. pt. ii. p. 646.
OS 6-inch map, Sutherland, cx.
RCAHMS 1911, visited (AOC) 12th July 1909
