Accessing Scotland's Past Project
Event ID 560761
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Accessing Scotland's Past Project
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/560761
Kilnmaichlie House stands in woodland on the west bank of the River Avon, about 1.4 km north of its confluence with the River Livet. The place name is depicted on Robert Gordon's mid-seventeenth century map of Strathavon.
A sixteenth-century L-plan tower-house on this site came to be incorporated into a late eighteenth or early nineteenth century farmsteading. The steading stands about 100m south-west of the farmhouse, and is depicted on the 1976 1:10000 Ordnance Survey map.
According to the 1st edition of the Ordnance Survey 6-inch map of Banffshire (1872), a mill-dam, sluice and mill lade lay to the north of the farm buildings, but by the 2nd edition 6-inch map (1904) the mill was in disuse and only the dam is shown.
Text prepared by RCAHMS as part of the Accessing Scotland's Past project
