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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.
