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Carron, Skaithmuir Tower
Tower House (Medieval)
Site Name Carron, Skaithmuir Tower
Classification Tower House (Medieval)
Canmore ID 46907
Site Number NS88SE 12
NGR NS 88848 83462
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/46907
- Council Falkirk
- Parish Larbert
- Former Region Central
- Former District Falkirk
- Former County Stirlingshire
NS88SE 12 8884 8348.
(NS 8884 8348) Skaithmuir Tower (NR) (remains of)
OS 6" map (1967)
Skaithmuir Tower now stands as a shell gutted of its woodwork and roof. Built of squared and irregularly coursed rubble, it measures 34'6" E-W by 25'3" over 3'6" thick walls. It originally comprised three storeys and an attic, but later alterations have altered the appearance of the structure. It appears to have been built in 1607, the date carved on the lintel of an original window in the W gable. After a period of use as a dwelling-house, it was later converted into a pumping-station to serve a coal pit of which the shaft was sunk about 6' from the S side walls. One-storeyed extensions were also added at all four corners of the tower, but only the ragged ends of these later walls survive.
RCAHMS 1963, visited 1953
Skaithmuir Tower has been completely demolished and its site grassed over to form part of a playing field.
Visited by OS (BS) 8 February 1974.
Skaithmuir Tower was reused as the pumping-house of a coal mine.
RCAHMS 1998b
Note (1978)
Skaithmuir NS 888 834 NS88SE 12
Site of three-storeyed tower-house built in 1607 and later converted to coal-mine pumping-station, now demolished.
RCAHMS 1978
(RCAHMS 1963, pp. 239-40, no. 201)
