Archaeology Notes
Event ID 687222
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/687222
NO35NE 1.00 39816 595434 Castle
NO35NE 1.01 39308 59204 Gertrude Cottage
NO35NE 1.02 39471 59220 Red Lodge
NO35NE 1.03 39948 59443 Dairy Cottage
NO35NE 1.04 39902 58611 Airlie Lodge
NO35NE 1.05 966 5904 Gardens
NO35NE 1.06 39541 59744 Gray Lodge
NO35NE 1.07 39671 59772 Private Burial Ground
NO35NE 1.08 c. 395 597 Golden Gates
NO35NE 1.09 c. 400 593 Old Butler's Cottage
NO35NE 1.10 39980 59325 Stables
NO35NE 1.11 3990 5950 Approach avenue
NO35NE 1.12 39768 59069 Walled garden glasshouses
NO35NE 1.13 c. 3975 5950 Policies
NO35NE 1.14 39646 59695 Riverside walk
NO35NE 1.15 39452 59203 Red Lodge Gates
See also:
NO45NW 44 Centred NO 4003 5935 Cortachy Home Farm
NO45NW 45 NO 40201 59324 Eastmill Cottage
NO45NW 46 NO 40052 59458 Riverside Cottage
For Cortachy House (NO 3947 5961), see NO35NE 77.
(NO 3983 5954) Cortachy Castle (NAT)
OS 6" map, Forfarshire and Angus, 2nd ed., (1927)
Although Cortachy Castle has been greatly altered and extended down the centuries, it stems from a courtyard-type castle of probable 15th century date, of which three of the circular flanking towers still remain, with portions of the curtain-walling between, which has been raised and incorporated in the later building. The main tower has presumably been overwhelmed in the extensions to N and E, probably in the 17th century when it came into the possession of the Airlie family. Also, c.1872 extensive alterations were made to the castle and other minor alterations have been made from time to time.
D MacGibbon and T Ross 1887-92; N Tranter 1962-70.
There was a castle here in the 14th century, but no trace remains of it; it then belonged to the Earls of Strathearn. It was granted to the Ogilvies in 1473.They are still in residence.
The southern part of the mansion contains the early building with two massive angle towers, but these, with other walls, have been harled and the architectural features modernised, so as to lose much of the original character. The castle is the residence of the Earl of Airlie. Name confirmed by Estate Office Factor.
Visited by OS (JLD) 3 September 1958.
Cortachy Castle is as described by the previous authorities.
Surveyed at 1:2500.
Visited by OS (BS) 10 January 1977.