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Archaeology Notes
Event ID 658367
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/658367
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.
