Archaeology Notes

Event ID 658367

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NG36NE 7.00 37973 67485

(NG 377 674) Monkstadt (NAT)

OS 6"map, Inverness-shire, 2nd ed., (1903)

NG36NE 7.01 NG 37788 67425 Steading

(NG 376 748) Monkstadt House, originally built in the second half of the 17th century as a dower house for the widow of Sir James Mor, was rebuilt c.1732 by Sir Alexander Macdonald as a replacement for Duntulm Castle (NG47SW 1), using that later place as a quarry for materials. Monkstadt House was vacated by the MacDonalds in 1798 and then became the dwelling of successive tacksmen of the adjoining lands.

A large part of the house is now a roofless ruin, but half of the main block is still inhabited. The old crow-stepped gable at the W end - the stones of which may have come from Duntulm - is still intact.

J Macintyre 1938.

Monkstadt: a roofless, gutted, ruin.

Visited by OS (C F W) 28 April 1961.

No change.

Visited by OS (R L) 8 September 1971.