Archaeology Notes

Event ID 666597

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NJ16SW 8 1096 6240

For present Earnside House (NJ 1071 6229) and associated buildings, see NJ16SW 70.00.

(NJ 1096 6240) Earnside Castle (NR) (Site of)

OS 6"map, Morayshire, 2nd ed., (1906)

Nothing is known of Ernside Castle except that it was built by the Cumyns of Altyr about 1450.

H B Mackintosh 1924.

No trace remains of this castle. The site is now partially covered by huts and lumber.

Visited by OS (W D J) 18 September 1963.