Archaeology Notes
Date - 1970
Event ID 685696
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
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NO24NE 17 27805 49641.
(NO 2780 4964) Inverquiech Castle (NR)
OS 6" map (1959)
Inverquiech Castle is thought to have been built by Alexander II, or an earlier King, as a hunting lodge, but it was certainly in existence in 1296 when Edward I visited it.
A J Warden 1885
The remains consist of an ivy-clad E wall, described as 60 ft. in length in 1892, which contains what appears to have been a postern or sallyport out to the steep bank on which the wall stands. The castle site is occupied by a garden and various moulded stones from the castle may be seen in the walls of the adjoining farmhouse.
D MacGibbon and T Ross 1892
As previously described. The external height of the wall is c. 10.0m, its internal height, c. 8.0m. The remains of a garderobe chute are visible in the north part of the wall.
Visited by OS (WDJ) 24 September 1970
