Skye, Armadale Castle, Walled Garden And Gardens
Garden (Period Unassigned), Walled Garden (Period Unassigned)
Site Name Skye, Armadale Castle, Walled Garden And Gardens
Classification Garden (Period Unassigned), Walled Garden (Period Unassigned)
Canmore ID 100559
Site Number NG60SW 8.04
NGR NG 63852 04793
NGR Description Centred NG 63852 04793
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/100559
- Council Highland
- Parish Sleat
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Skye And Lochalsh
- Former County Inverness-shire
Gardens : Martin Martin refers to a 'walled orchard' at Armadale in the 1690s and Dr Johnson commented on plantings here in 1773. The present policies date from the 1820s, with specimen plantings mostly of the 1870s.
[McMartin's 'A Description of Sky' (Macfarlane's Geographical Collections) establishes Sleats reputation as the Garden of Skye as long ago as c.1670. 'It exceeds anie part of the whole, as to its woods. Its chief place is Armidile one of the chief places of residences belonging to McDonald it is adorned with a house fine gardens with all sorts of fruits, it has also a wood and park'.]
Taken from "Western Seaboard: An Illustrated Architectural Guide", by Mary Miers, 2008. Published by the Rutland Press http://www.rias.org.uk
NG60SW 8.04 centred 6385 0479
NG 637 047 (centre) A record was made by survey and excavation of the earthworks surrounding/enclosing the 17th-century orchard at Armadale Castle, prior to their destruction by development. The site of the former ice house was also identified and surveyed, but lies outwith the development area.
Reports are lodged with Highland SMR and the NMRS.
Sponsor: Clan Donald Lands Trust.
M Wildgoose 2000
See also: NG60SW 8.00 Skye, Armadale Castle
8.01 Skye, Armadale Castle, Stables
8.02 Skye, Armadale Castle, Bridge
8.03 Skye, Armadale Castle, Laundry
9 Skye, Armadale Castle (archaeology entry)
