Castle Kitchie

NH52NW 5 5386 2515.

(NH 5385 2514) Castle Kitchie (NAT)

OS 6"map, Inverness-shire, 2nd ed., (1906)

Caisteal Cruinn, the round castle on Carn a' Chitsinn (the cairn of the kitchen) is in ruins.

N Fraser-Tytler 1929

Occupying the level summit of a spur at NH 5384 2513 are the remains of a fort, sub-oval on plan, defined by a robbed dry-stone wall, measuring overall approximately 35.0m NE-SW by 29.0m. The wall survives as a tumbled rubble core, with the base course of the outer face visible in the NW and S arcs. It is destroyed in the NE, and its course is marked by a scarp in the SE. On the NW side, the width of tumble, and the position of the outer face below the summit of the spur, indicates a wall thickness of 3.5m - 4.0m. No entrance is evident.

The name "Castle Kitchie" is applied locally to the ruins of a later building which occupies the interior of the fort. The names "Caisteal Cruinn", or "Carn a' Chitsinn" are not known.

Surveyed at 1:10,000

Enlargement at 1:1250.

Visited by OS (N K B) 14 April 1970

(NH 5386 2515) Castle Kitchie (NAT) Fort (NR) (remains of)

OS 1/10,000 map, (1972)

No change to previous field report.

Revised at 1/10,000.

Visited by OS (J M) 19 January 1979