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Field Visit
Date 26 May 1925
Event ID 1098286
Category Recording
Type Field Visit
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1098286
Hallyards Castle.
Some fragments of walling and a few mounds rising within a ploughed field represent all that remains of Hallyards Castle, which has evidently been an extensive house of the 16th or 17th century, built round a courtyard measuring 123 by 87 feet over all. A somewhat less ruinous structure at the north-east corner is possibly of later date. Part of a gable, still standing at the south-east corner, indicates that here the building has been a vaulted ground-floor and at least two upper floors, with a lean-to structure or "to-fall."
HISTORICAL NOTE. ‘1653, Jan.-The old Laird of Halyeards in Fyfe (surnamed Skine), depairted out of this life att Halyeards, and was interred ... att Achtertoole church’ (1).
RCAHMS 1933, visited 26 May 1925.
(1) The Diary of Mr. John Lamont of Newton, 1649-71 (Maitland Club), p. 52.