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Colliechat Castle

Tower House (Medieval)

Site Name Colliechat Castle

Classification Tower House (Medieval)

Canmore ID 24396

Site Number NN60SE 6

NGR NN 68787 03772

Datum OSGB36 - NGR

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Administrative Areas

  • Council Stirling
  • Parish Kilmadock
  • Former Region Central
  • Former District Stirling
  • Former County Perthshire

Archaeology Notes

NN60SE 6 68806 03761

(NN 68806 03761) Castle (NR) (Remains of)

OS 6 map, (1958)

The remains of the house of Colliechat, about mid-way between Callander and Doune, consist of a broken circular tower, about 30ft high. The house was probably of the Z-plan of which this formed the southern tower. In the west gable of the adjoining farmhouse is a stone with moulded edges taken from the old building. (Listed under Fourth Period - 1542-1700).

D MacGibbon and T Ross 1887-92.

Said to have been built by the Muschets of Burnbank.

Name Book 1863.

No trace of this building exists, the site being occupied by a farm building recently erected. The stone with moulded edges was not seen; the gables of the farmhouse are now harled. Enquiries at Easter Coillechat proved negative.

Visited by OS (E G C) 11 October 1968.

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Field Visit (August 1978)

Colliechat Castle NN 687 037 NN60SE 6

The site of this castle is occupied by relatively modern farm buildings. Remains visible in the 19th century suggested that it was probably Z-shaped on plan.

RCAHMS 1979, visited August 1978

(MacGibbon and Ross 1887-92, iv, 388)

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