Archaeology Notes

Event ID 660900

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NH55SE 1.00 55388 54333.

(NH 5538 5433) Kinkell Castle (NR)

OS 6" map, (1973)

A late 16th C fortalice, modest in size and approximately to the Z-plan with the main block lying E-W. A circular stair tower rises at the SE corner and a stair turret is corbelled out above first-floor level at the NW. The entrance is in the re-entrant angle at the base of the stair tower and is guarded by gun-loops. The harled walls rise three storeys and a garret to a steep roof with crowstepped gables. Internally, the hall fireplace bears a defaced shield dated 1594. Kinkell was the property of the MacKenzies of Gairloch. The castle was used as a farm-house and then deserted, but is now being restored.

N Tranter 1970.

Kinkell Castle is as described above and fully restored and occupied.

Visited by OS (J B) 28 July 1975.