Dunain House
Tower (Medieval)(Possible)
Site Name Dunain House
Classification Tower (Medieval)(Possible)
Canmore ID 13544
Site Number NH64SW 11
NGR NH 626 423
NGR Description NH c. 62 43
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
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- Council Highland
- Parish Inverness And Bona
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Inverness
- Former County Inverness-shire
NH64SW 11 626 423.
The estate of Dunain was anciently provided with its own keep or tower.
New Statistical Account (NSA, A Rose, A Clark and R Macpherson) 1845.
Enquiries at Dunain House, now an hospital annexe, failed to obtain any information regarding this tower or keep. There is a small tower of red sandstone incorporated in a group of farm buildings some 200 m.of Dunain House, but tower and farm building appear to have been built as one unit and are probably of 19th century construction in mock Scottish Baronial style.
Visited by OS (W D J) 29 March 1962.
Field Visit (June 1978)
Dunain NH c.62 42 NH64SW 11
No traces are now visible of the 'Keep or tower' which an account of 1845 mentions on the estate of Dunain.
RCAHMS 1979, visited June 1978
NSA, xiv (Inverness), 15
