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Date 24 February 1853

Event ID 929963

Category Documentary Reference

Type Reference

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/929963

The ruins of an old castle situated on the top of a steep bank close by the high water mark on the farm of Ardross and consisting of the remains of the outside wall which is about 7 feet height and about 5 feet in thickness, it appears to have been about 90 to 100 foot long by about 35 foot wide. Of its origin or the date of its erection nothing is locally known further than that it was at one time the baronial residence of former proprietors. Informant William Given says that it belonged at one time to a family of the name 'Scott', and before that to a family of the name 'Dischington' and that he read such account in the History of Fife by Leighton (v.III, p87). Latterly it was with other hands in the vicinity the property of Sir William C Anstruther. It is now the property of Mr Baird. The period at which it became a ruin as well as the date of erection is unknown.

Ordnance Survey Name Book, Fife, Book 80, 117. Entry by Thomas Smith 24th February 1853.

References: Rev Mr Page (Parish Minister), William Girvan (mason), George Forgan (farmer).

Entered by RCAHMS (GFG) 11 October 2012

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