Castletown

The remains of a farmstead comprising a building and an enclosure are situated on a terrace in the angle of the approach road to Corgarff Castle. An L-shaped building is depicted as roofed at this location on the first edition of the OS six-inch map, and is annotated as Castletown. By the turn of the century, the site is shown as unimproved ground and the placename has been assigned to two roofed buildings a short distance to the west.

Text prepared by RCAHMS as part of the Accessing Scotland's Past project

NJ20NE 81 2543 0877

What may be the remains of a farmstead are situated on a terrace in the angle of the approach road to Corgarff Castle (NJ20NE 1.00). It comprises possible traces of a building set on the W side of an enclosure. An L-shaped structure is depicted as roofed on the first edition of the OS 6-inch map (Aberdeenshire 1869, sheet LXVIII), but it had been removed by the end of the 19th century (2nd edition map 1902, sheet LXVIII).

Visited by RCAHMS (JRS, SH), 11 August 1997.