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Skye, Old Kingsburgh House
House (Period Unassigned)
Site Name Skye, Old Kingsburgh House
Classification House (Period Unassigned)
Alternative Name(s) Kysburg; 'site Of Old Kingsburgh House'
Canmore ID 11132
Site Number NG35NE 4
NGR NG 3931 5538
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/11132
- Council Highland
- Parish Snizort
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Skye And Lochalsh
- Former County Inverness-shire
NG35NE 4 3931 5538
For New Kingsburgh House (NG 39428 55256), see NG35NE 37.
(NG 3931 5538) Kingsburgh House (NAT) (Site of)
OS 6"map, Inverness-shire, 2nd ed., (1904)
Kingsburgh (anciently Kysburg), the residence of Allan, husband of Flora Macdonald, is mentioned in 1557 and, later, it was the house to which Prince Charles was taken on his arrival in Skye.
The house is now entirely removed, but the site of the garden is still marked by a square of old plane trees.
Orig Paroch Scot 1854; M E M Donaldson 1923; Visited by OS (A C) 22 March 1961.
Nothing of this house remains and the owner of the present Kingsburgh House (Lt. Col. J Curtois, OBE) could offer no information either on the house itself, or the authenticity of the siting. The present house appears to be of 19th century date.
Visited by OS (C F W) 3 May 1961.
The OS field Surveyor (G Thompson 9 September 1963) suggests that the position of the published site is suspect, and should be noted approx. 30m E, on to roughly the position of the present house. Mrs Curtois, the present owner of the house, insists that Kingsburgh House is in fact the original, plus additions. The facade appears to be c.1820, but the rear of the house somewhat older.
Visited by OS (G T) 9 September 1963.
EXTERNAL REFERENCE:
NATIONAL ARCHIVES OF SCOTLAND (SRO)
Skye, Kingsburgh House.
Payment for building the Chamberlain's House.
Its cost of (pounds)600 is paid in three instalments.
'Account between Rt Hon Lord Macdonald and John Campbell W.S. His Agent and Cashier'.
1796 - 1798 GD 221/124
Valuation of Kingsburgh House and Offices.
Included in Insurance of Buildings for the sum of (pounds)600.
1806 GD 221/73/9
Particulars of the house and estate provided at the time of proposed sale.
Plane trees mark the site of the garden of the old house.
A description given of the present house on the North side of Lord Snizort Beag.
1894 GD 221/82
