Archaeology Notes

Event ID 711263

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NT08NE 21.00 0634 8612

(NT 0634 8612) Pitfirrane (NR)

OS 6" map, (1967)

Pitfirrane Castle, a composite structure, consists of a 15th century tower house, 30 3/4' N-S by 53', which was heightened in 1583, when a new wing was built to the S. In the late 17th century, a further large addition, four storeys in height, was made on the E tower and wing. A "yett", probably dating from 1583, has been set up across the path leading to the gardens. There is late 16th century sundial on the lawn SW of the mansion.

RCAHMS 1933

The name occurs as "Petfurnane" in a charter of 1437, and as several charters of this period were signed "apud Petfurnane", there must have been a mansion on the estate at that time.

A H Millar 1895.

Pitfirrane is a large mansion, as described by the RCAHMS, to which a number of 19th century additions have been made. It is now the Dunfermline Golf Club House. The sundial has been removed.

Visited by OS (J L D) 27 March 1961.

Possible 16th century garden.

N Hynd 1984.