Archaeology Notes

Event ID 665067

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NH92NE 1 98589 25051

see also NH92NE 14 NH 986 251 Building

(NH 9857 2504) Muckrach Castle (AD. 1598) (NAT) (in ruins)

OS 6"map, Inverness-shire, 2nd ed., (1903)

Muchrach Castle was built in 1598 by the second son of John Grant of Freuchie and was the original seat of the Grants of Rothiemurchus.

The square Keep, of simple design had at one time extensive buildings connected with it and forming a courtyard. These are now only traceable from the green mounds which cover their ruins.

The Keep basement is vaulted, the hall being on the first floor. Above this were two floors and attics approached by a corkscrew staircase in a turret corbelled out in the angle.

D MacGibbon and T Ross 1887-92.

As described and planned by MacGibbon and Ross. Muckrach Castle is now a roofless shell.

Surveyed at 1/2500.

Visited by OS (R L) 11 September 1966.

An unroofed building is depicted on the 1st edition of the OS 6-inch map (Inverness-shire 1874-5, sheet xlvi), but it is not shown on the current edition of the OS 1:10000 map (1972).

Information from RCAHMS (SAH) 3 July 1996

During the 1980s the castle was fully restored and is now available for holiday accommodation.

Information by letter to RCAHMS from Mr D R Griffith, Edinburgh, March 2003

The site was visited at the time of survey and is available for holiday accommodation. No trace was found of the unroofed building depicted immediately N of Muckrach Castle on the 1st edition of the OS 6-inch map (Inverness-shire 1874-5, sheet xlvi)

Visited by RCAHMS (SPH) 12 October 2006.