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Archaeology Notes

Event ID 671149

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/671149

NJ90NW 36 9459 0648

(NJ 9459 0648) Site of Mauchlin Tower (NR)

(Red Friars Monastery) (NAT)

OS 25" map, (1955).

The site of Mauchlin Tower, part of which survived in 1866, and was said by Gordon to have been a convent and church of the Red Friars or Templars. This was not a religious house but was merely Templar property (Easson 1957). The house of the Red Friars or Trinitarians lay elsewhere (NJ90NW 41).

Name Book 1866; D E Easson 1957; Spalding Club 1843; W Macfarlane 1907.

(Additional bibliography cited).

NMRS, MS/712/83.

The site of this tower lies in a redeveloped part of the city.

Visited by RCAHMS (JRS, ATW), 26 February 1997.

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