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Field Visit
Date 3 March 1987
Event ID 1122237
Category Recording
Type Field Visit
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1122237
This castle occupies a precipitous promontory formed at the confluence of the Quiech Burn and the River Isla; the neck of the promontory is in part cut by a steep-sided natural gully measuring 18m wide by up to 4.8m deep. All that remains visible of the medieval fabric are fragments of two walls on the E and SSE respectively, and one on the NW incorporating a wide-mouthed horizontal gun-loop. The E wall, rising to two storeys in height, incorporates a garderobe, a drain and what may be the robbed remains of a ground-floor fireplace; that on the SSE has a postern and a plinth. The SSE wall can be traced for a further 38m and may once have extended round the perimeter of the promontory.
The castle is on record in 1296, and was latterly the property of the Lindsays, Earls of Crawford.
Visited by RCAHMS (IMS/PC) 3 March 1987.
RCAHMS 1990
