Archaeology Notes

Event ID 710049

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NT06SE 4 0903 6051.

(NT 0903 6051) Cairns Castle (NR) (Remains of)

OS 6" map (1957)

Cairns Castle, now ruinous, is of 15th century date. On plan it comprises a rectangular tower, 27 1/4' x 23 1/2'; to it is attached an 18' square wing. The walls, 4 3/4' to 6' thick, stand 30' high and show that there were at least three storeys below the wall-head. The structure is badly preserved.

RCAHMS 1929, visited 1914; H B M'Call 1894

Cairns Castle is generally as described though only the lower portion of the SW wing survives. The remains are now in a fair state of preservation.

Visited by OS (WDJ) 19 August 1965 and (JP) 6 March 1974