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Archaeology Notes
Event ID 699409
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/699409
NS09NW 1 00527 95280
Not to be confused with the country house of the same name (at NS 01298 95563), for which see NS09NW 26.
(NS 0052 9526) Castle (NR) (In Ruins)
OS 6" map (1900)
Castle Lachlan, which is probably of 15th century date is of a peculiar form. Externally, its appearance is of a great keep, 70' N-S by 54' transversely, standing 43' high; but on going inside, it is found to consist of two tenements, on the E and W sides of a narrow open court, 12'6" wide by 34'3" long. These two blocks are connected at the N end by a small building containing a room 8' by 7' and a small wheel-staircase. The castle was occupied by the Maclachlans till 1746, when attacked by a government warship; though little damage was done, its occupants fled, and it was never again occupied.
D MacGibbon and T Ross 1889
Generally as described. The N and S corners have fallen.
Visited by OS (DWR) 29 November 1972
