Archaeology Notes

Event ID 703889

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NS65SW 3 6168 5271.

(NS 6168 5271) Site of Lickprivick Castle (NR)

OS 6" map, Lanarkshire, 2nd ed., (1910)

The mansion house or castle of Lickprivick was built like the great feudal houses, with towers, battlements, etc. The whole was reduced to ruins about 1733 and such rubbish as still remained in 1793 was completely gone by 1840.

Name Book 1858; D Ure 1793; New Statistical Account (NSA) 1845.

The site of this building is now represented by an isolated, apparently natural knoll, with no trace of masonry or ditch. No further information was obtained regarding the date of erection of the castle, but from the above description it would appear to have been of a defensive rather than residential character, and therefore probably of pre-17th century date.

Visited by OS (J F C) 17 March 1955.

This site is now covered by a housing estate, path, and grassed area.

Information from T C Welsh to OS, 7 July 1973.