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Fullarton Castle
Architectural Fragment(S) (16th Century) - (17th Century), House (16th Century) - (17th Century)
Site Name Fullarton Castle
Classification Architectural Fragment(S) (16th Century) - (17th Century), House (16th Century) - (17th Century)
Alternative Name(s) South West Fullarton Steading
Canmore ID 30907
Site Number NO24SE 58
NGR NO 2951 4376
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/30907
- Council Perth And Kinross
- Parish Meigle
- Former Region Tayside
- Former District Perth And Kinross
- Former County Perthshire
NO24SE 58 2951 4376.
For cropmarks and excavated pottery from Mains of Fullarton, see NO24SE 61. For architectural fragments built into The Square at Meigle, see NO24SE 70. For South West Fullarton steading see NO24SE 76.
The site of Fullerton Castle, supposedly erected in 1497, is situated on top of the ridge, some 200m SE of Meigle Free Church manse. It is marked as a substantial building on the maps of James Knox and James Stobie although the OS 6" map of 1863 does not show it.
Stone from the castle was later, presumably between 1850 and 1863, removed and used for the construction of the farmhouse and steading at Myreside (now South West Fullarton). Ornamental architectural stones carved in a 16 th-century style can be seen there at the present. There are otherwise no remains extant of the old structure of the castle.
J Stobie 1783; J Knox 1850; A Mackay 1876; P Strong 1985
Field Visit (5 July 1989)
There are no remains visible of a 17th-century laird's house at Fullarton, although the site might be that noted by Mackay, some 180m to the SE of the Free Church manse (NO 292 439). A number of dressed and moulded stones incorporated into South West Fullarton steading (NO24SE 76), however, have probably come from the house. These include chamfered window rybats and a pediment bearing a shield (a crosslet fitchee) and the initials DME, Dame Margaret Erskine, widow of Sir William Fullarton of Ardo, who is mentioned in a bond of 1620. Three other pediments removed from the steading are incorporated in the front and end-wall of a house in Meigle (NO 2972 4465: see NO24SE 70).
The house and policies are depicted by Roy and, although both were removed sometime prior to 1867, traces of the layout of the policies are revealed by cropmarks (NO24SE 61); sherds of 17th-century pottery were recovered from a number of excavated ditch sections. Formerly the property of the Lindsays, in 1598 the barony was sold to Sir William Fullerton of Ardo and was erected a free barony in 1608. The family ran up serious debts and their lands were apprised from them in 1656, and, although a third William Fullerton obtained a charter of the barony in 1687, in 1697 it passed once more to the Lindsays of Spynie.
Visited by RCAHMS (IMS) 5 July 1989.
W Roy 1745-7; A Mackay 1876; A Jervise 1882; Reg Mag Sig; P Strong 1987.
