Kilcoy Castle
Tower House (17th Century)
Site Name Kilcoy Castle
Classification Tower House (17th Century)
Canmore ID 12839
Site Number NH55SE 8
NGR NH 57662 51236
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/12839
- Council Highland
- Parish Killearnan
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Ross And Cromarty
- Former County Ross And Cromarty
NH55SE 8.00 57626 51236
NH55SE 8.01 57678 51242 gate piers
(NH 5762 5122) Kilcoy Castle (NR) (restored)
OS 6" map, (1973)
A 17th C Z-plan fortalice four storeys high of warm red rubble masonry pierced with gun-loops and shot-holes. The present entrance is in the centre of the south front but the original was in the re-entrant angle with the SE tower.
The castle was erected by Alexander MacKenzie, who aquired the property in 1618, and by the end of the 19th C it was a roofless ruin but it has since been restored.
This castle is as described above. The later additions to the NW side were built in c 1890. According to the owner's wife (Mrs Robertson, Kilcoy Castle), the castle's construction was started in 1618 by James Stewart of Newton. After his death the property passed to Alexander MacKenzie.
D MacDonald and T Ross 1887; N Tranter 1970.
No change.
Visited by RCAHMS (JRS) 3 March 1989.
ARCHITECT: Alexander Ross-restoration
ARCHITECTS: Ross & Macbeth (I.C. 25 Feb 1890) Restoration and additions
Note (1979)
Kilcoy Castle NH576512 NH55SE 8
This four-storeyed Z-plan tower-house was built in the early 17th century; it has been extensively restored.
RCAHMS 1979
MacGibbon and Ross 1887-92, ii, 252-6
