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Castle Of Lonmay

Castle (Medieval), Motte (Medieval)(Possible)

Site Name Castle Of Lonmay

Classification Castle (Medieval), Motte (Medieval)(Possible)

Alternative Name(s) Lonmay Castle; Old House Of Lomney

Canmore ID 21123

Site Number NK06SE 4

NGR NK 0623 6080

Datum OSGB36 - NGR

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Administrative Areas

  • Council Aberdeenshire
  • Parish Lonmay
  • Former Region Grampian
  • Former District Banff And Buchan
  • Former County Aberdeenshire

Archaeology Notes

NK06SE 4 0623 6080.

(NK 0623 6080) Castle of Lonmay (NR) (site of)

OS 6" map, (1959)

The Castle of Lonmay, one of the nine castles of the NE corner of Buchan, possibly 13th century (Simpson 1951), is remembered only as a name, any other tradition having been forgotten. All the stones have been used in building farmhouses etc (NSA 1845).

According to the ONB (1870) the name applied to "an evidently artificial but now much dilapidated .... mound".

New Statistical Account (NSA, written by Rev C Gibbon - 1840) 1845; Ordnance Survey Name Book (ONB)1870;

W D Simpson 1951.

The site is a slight elevation which has been extensively quarried, revealing an occasional dressed stone but no other trace of a castle. Visited by OS (RL) 14 January 1969.

Motte.

P A Yeoman 1988.

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