Archaeology Notes

Event ID 661168

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NH55SE 8.00 57626 51236

NH55SE 8.01 57678 51242 gate piers

(NH 5762 5122) Kilcoy Castle (NR) (restored)

OS 6" map, (1973)

A 17th C Z-plan fortalice four storeys high of warm red rubble masonry pierced with gun-loops and shot-holes. The present entrance is in the centre of the south front but the original was in the re-entrant angle with the SE tower.

The castle was erected by Alexander MacKenzie, who aquired the property in 1618, and by the end of the 19th C it was a roofless ruin but it has since been restored.

This castle is as described above. The later additions to the NW side were built in c 1890. According to the owner's wife (Mrs Robertson, Kilcoy Castle), the castle's construction was started in 1618 by James Stewart of Newton. After his death the property passed to Alexander MacKenzie.

D MacDonald and T Ross 1887; N Tranter 1970.

No change.

Visited by RCAHMS (JRS) 3 March 1989.