Archaeology Notes

Event ID 667851

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NJ54NW 3 53600 46609

(NJ 5360 4661) Avochie Castle (NR) (Remains of)

OS 6" map, Aberdeenshire, 2nd ed., (1902)

(NJ 5360 4660) Avochie Castle (NR) (Remains of).

The name is printed to a building approximately 11.0m by 6.0m which was no longer in existence during revision of second edition above.

OS 25" map, Aberdeenshire, (1871)

'All that remains of this very old structure is two gables of no great height and from their appearance the building seems to have possessed no architectural beauty.

It has scarcely a claim to be the title of "Castle" as it was only a small quadrangular building of scarcely two stories. The masonary that remains though rough, is very strong. The wall an ordinary thickness.

It is supposed to have been built early in the 16th century, and was inhabited as late as 1745 being then in ruins.

The two gables serve for walls to an outhouse which is built between them. It is on the estate of Avochie and was at one time used as the residence of the proprietor. It is now the property of Adam Hay Gordon, Esq Avochie.'

Name Book 1871.

There is no evidence of a 'castle' here, except for the ruins of a very old house of uncertain period.

Visited by OS (EGC) 7 February 1964.