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Shandwick
Castle (Medieval)
Site Name Shandwick
Classification Castle (Medieval)
Alternative Name(s) Old Shandwick
Canmore ID 15276
Site Number NH87SE 2
NGR NH 85821 74514
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/15276
- Council Highland
- Parish Nigg (Ross And Cromarty)
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Ross And Cromarty
- Former County Ross And Cromarty
NH87SE 2 8582 7451
(NH 8582 7451) Castle (NR) (Site of)
OS 6" map, Ross-shire, 2nd ed., (1907)
Castle at Shandwick built by Wm Ross of Little Allen c. 1460. There is no sign of fosse or moat. Building materials have long been removed (Ordnance Survey Name Book [ONB] 1872). The remains of the castle were entirely removed by quarrying for road ballast in 1942.
Information from J Howdle to OS, 18 August 1959.
OS Name Book 1872.
No further information.
Visited by OS (I S S), 29 August 1972.
Castle (destroyed).
CFA/MORA Coastal Assessment Survey 1998.
Note (1979)
Old Shandwick NH 858 745 NH87SE 2
This castle, which was probably built in about 1460, was ruinous by 1780 and was finally removed in 1942.
RCAHMS 1979
(Cordiner 1780, i, 65; Name Book, Ross-shire, no. 26, p. 11)
