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Field Visit
Date 17 May 1989
Event ID 1107309
Category Recording
Type Field Visit
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1107309
On the summit of Castle Hill, Clunie, there are the remains of a royal castle, which was probably a hunting lodge for the forest of Clunie. These comprise fragments of the wall-core of what has been probably quite a large building situated on the S side of the summit and possibly traces of a heavily-robbed and quarried curtain wall. Access to the castle was by means of a terraced trackway on the S. The sides of the hill are also terraced and, while some of these may be due to later landscaping or agricultural activity, it is possible that at least one is defensive in nature.
Clunie in Stormont, is on record in 849, and the royal seat from about 1141; in 1296 it was occupied by Edward I. Stone from the castle was used for the tower-house on the island in Lock of Clunie (NO14SW 4) and, in 1513, four men were employed for a year to clear the remaining rubble from the summit. The evidence for quarrying perhaps dates from this period.
Visited by RCAHMS (IMS) 17 May 1989.
Statistical Account (OSA); Dunkeld Rentale; MacGibbon and Ross 1889; A C Lawrie 1905; A O Anderson 1922; Reg Reg Scot; L Alcock 1981.
