Archaeology Notes
Event ID 662629
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
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NH66SW 5 6343 6218.
(NH 6343 6218) Kinbeachie Castle (NR)
OS 6" map, (1959)
Of Kinbeachie Castle, formerly a seat of the Urquharts, only the south gable remains. It contains a fireplace over which is a panel dated 1546. The other walls are reduced to foundation level.
MacDonald, Polson and Brown (1931) say that another panel, dated 1612, is now in the National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh.
Name Book 1875; D MacDonald, A Polson and J Brown 1931.
The remains of Kinbeachie Castle comprise the SE wall and the foundations of the NE, NW and SW walls. The SE wall, 1.2m in width; is extant to a maximum height of 1.7m and the total length is 6.6m externally. It is rubble masonry, but the E and S angles have been constructed of dressed stones. The inside face of the wall is obscured in a mass of tumble, and the fireplace, together with the date panel, is no longer visible.
Revised at 1/2500.
Visited by OS (R B) 24 January 1966.
No remains.
RCAHMS 1979.