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Milntown Castle
Tower House (Medieval)
Site Name Milntown Castle
Classification Tower House (Medieval)
Alternative Name(s) Milton Castle
Canmore ID 14582
Site Number NH77SE 1
NGR NH 77233 73700
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/14582
- Council Highland
- Parish Kilmuir Easter
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Ross And Cromarty
- Former County Ross And Cromarty
NH77SE 1 7723 7370.
(NH 7723 7370) Castle (NR) (remains of)
OS 6" map, (1959)
Milntown Castle was built by Andrew Munro, about 1500. It was a seat of the Earls of Cromartie. The vaults are preserved.
ISSFC 1902; W J Watson 1904.
Miltown Castle, probably a small 16th century tower of which only the basement remains, is now partially underground as a result of 18th-19th century landscape gardening, and the outer wall face is only visible by the entrance on the N side.
The interior measures 3.7m square within walls 1.2m thick. The arched entrance is 1.9m high and 1.2m wide on the outside, enlarging to 1.5m wide on the inside face. A blocked embrasure is visible in the E wall. The barrel-vaulted roof, 2.8m high from the present inside floor level, contains a sqaure hole, and has been harled. The remains are almost identical in shape, size and construction to Arkendeith Tower
(NH65NE 2).
Resurveyed at 1/2500.
Visited by OS (N K B) 23 March 1966.
Field Visit (September 1977)
Milntown Castle NH 772 737 NH77SE 1
No visible remains survive of this castle which was built c. 1500. A square underground structure visible in a heavily landscaped area is most probably an ice-house.
RCAHMS 1979, visited September 1977
(Transactions of the Inverness Scientific Society and Field Club, v , 1895-9, 359; Watson 1904, 63)
