Archaeology Notes

Event ID 691060

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NO69NE 5 68587 99794

(NO 6858 9978) Cluny Crichton Castle (NR)

OS 6" map, 1959.

NMRS PLANS:

NMRS. Measured and drawn by Fenton Wyness 1929 - 1 sheet floor plans.

(Undated) information in NMRS.

Clounie Crichton Castle was built in 1666 by George Crichton of Cluny on the L-plan with a rectangular stair-tower set into the re-entrance angle. It stood three storeys and a garret in height, built of rough granite, but is now rapidly falling into complete decay, most of the dressed stonework having been removed.

The entrance, in the W side of the stair-tower, is protected by gun-holes with above it two recesses for coats of arms and a finely carved panel bearing the name and date.

J F Wyness 1939.