'Garvie Castle'
Castle (Medieval)
Site Name 'Garvie Castle'
Classification Castle (Medieval)
Canmore ID 40579
Site Number NS09SW 8
NGR NS 0362 9038
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/40579
- Council Argyll And Bute
- Parish Kilmodan
- Former Region Strathclyde
- Former District Argyll And Bute
- Former County Argyll
NS09SW 8 0362 9038.
(NS 0362 9038) Castle (NR) (Site of)
OS 6" map (1900)
There is no trace of this castle. No further information.
Visited by OS (DWR) 29 September 1972
Traditionally, this is the site of a small and unimportant castle called Gravie Castle, occupied from time to time by the Earl of Argyll.
Name Book 1866
Field Visit (July 1986)
There are no identifiable remains of the 'ancient, but small and unimportant Castle' whose traditional site was recorded in 1866 as lying immediately W of Garvie farmhouse (en.1). In 1530 documents were witnessed by the 3rd Earl of Argyll at 'the Garwe', and the lands of Garvie were feued by the 4th Earl in 1558 to a retainer, but appear to have reverted to the Argyll estate (en.2). Pont's manuscript map of about 1590 shows a building of some consequence, possibly a tower-house, and in 1665 a witness related that 'of old' an adjacent township supplied peats to the House of Garvie 'where my Lord did sometimes reside' (en.3).
RCAHMS 1992, visited July 1986
