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Archaeology Notes
Event ID 668410
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/668410
NJ61SE 1 66483 11426
(NJ 6648 1143) Tillycairn Castle (NR)
OS 6" map, (1959)
Tillycairn Castle is a fine example of the L-plan, probably built about 1550. It measures 41 1/2 feet by 37 feet, with a circular staircase tower in the re-entrant. The main building was four storeys high, the wing being one storey higher. Macfarlane (1906-8) records that the castle was ruinous in 1722. In 1921 the building was in good repair despite being used as a hen-house.
D MacGibbon and T Ross 1887-92; W Macfarlane 1906-8; W D Simpson 1921; W D Simpson 1949.
Tillycairn Castle, as described, illustrated and planned by Simpson (1921; 1949).
Visited by OS (RL) 5 February 1968.
P Yeoman: watching brief for SDD March 1980.
(Newspaper references cited).
NMRS, MS/712/57.
