Keppoch House
Tower House (Medieval)
Site Name Keppoch House
Classification Tower House (Medieval)
Canmore ID 42377
Site Number NS37NW 1
NGR NS 32971 79775
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/42377
- Council Argyll And Bute
- Parish Cardross (Argyll And Bute)
- Former Region Strathclyde
- Former District Dumbarton
- Former County Dunbartonshire
NS37NW 1 32971 79775
(Centred NS 32971 79775) Keppoch was the property of Stirling of Glorat in 1545. In the following century it passed to the Ewings. In 1820 a new mansion was built on the property.
J Irving 1879
The house built by the Ewings superseded an old peel tower of fortalice of an earlier generation.
D Murray 1880
There is no trace of an earlier building in any part of the present 19th century house of Keppoch.
Visited by OS (RDL) 21 January 1963
NS37NW 1.00 NS 32971 79775
NS37NW 1.01 NS 33088 79587 Vegetable Garden
NS37NW 1.02 NS 33075 79563 Walled Garden
NS37NW 1.03 NS 32766 79491 Gate and gate piers
Note (1978)
Keppoch NS 329 797 NS37NW 1
A house built in 1820 stands upon what may be the site of the tower-house of Keppoch.
RCAHMS 1978
(Irving 1879, ii, 307; Murray 1880, 66-7)
