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Archaeology Notes
Event ID 662043
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/662043
NH67SE 7 6801 7192
(NH 6801 7192) Newmore Castle (NR)
(AD 1625) (In Ruins)
OS 6" map, Ross-shire, 2nd ed., (1907)
The ruins consist of a small square apartment with an arched roof. It is surrounded by an orchard. A stone bearing the date of erection was removed and built into the wall on the west side of the gate at the entrance to Newmore.
No information can be obtained, except that it was built in 1625 by a Munro of Newmore.
Name Book 1874.
The remains of the castle consist of a rectangular building measuring 10.9m NE-SW by 7.3m transversely, with a stair turret at its east corner. Only the ground floor of the castle remains, consisting of three small barrel vaulted rooms in fair condition and it would appear that there are no vaults or cellars below. The walls of the castle are c 0.8m thick and stand to a height of c.2.5m with the tower 6-7m high. The walls of the castle and the stair-tower are librally provided with arrow-slits and gun-loops.
No trace was found of the stone bearing the date 1625. Inquiries at Newmore House proved negative.
Visited by OS (W D J) 11 May 1963.
