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Date 1984
Event ID 1154568
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Note
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1154568
Airlie Castle NO 292 522 NO25SE 11
Airlie Castle stands on the promontory formed where the Melgam Water meets the River Isla; it was probably begun in or shortly after 1432. Formerly 'an oblong quadrangle', all that now remains of the medieval castle is the E wall of the courtyard, measuring about 36m in length, 3m in thickness and 9m in height, towards the N end of which there is an entrance gateway surmounted by a tower. The present mansion, built in 1792-3, occupies the position of the N wall and incorporates portions of the earlier castle.
RCAHMS 1984.
(Stat. Acct, xi, 1794, 211-12; NSA, xi, Forfar, 676-7, 679-80; Warden 1880-85, ii, 328; MacGibbon and Ross, 1887-92, v, 216-18; Forman 1967, 105-8).
