Grangemouth, Inveravon Tower

NS97NE 15 95363 79780

(NS 95363 79780) Tower (NR)

OS 25" map (1955)

All that remains here is the outer semicircle of a tower, 12'4" in diameter with 5' thick walls. It is built of 17 courses of carefully laid sandstone rubble. Within is a vaulted basement, in 1924 used for storing farm implements, and overgrown above. It is apparently a 15th century work, and was very probably part of a more extensive structure - the "Castell of Inveravyne" which was destroyed by James II in 1455.

RCAHMS 1929, visited 1924

The remains are generally as described.

Visited by OS (JP) 17 July 1974

One sherd of 13th century pottery, and forty-one sherds of 14th/ 15th century pottery, from Inveravon Tower, are in Falkirk Museum.

DES 1977

Site recorded during a desk-based assessment and field survey of a proposed pipeline route running from the proposed Mossmorran Offtake Station to the proposed End Terminal at BP Grangemouth.

NS 9536 7978 Inveravon tower (Listed building).

Two detailed reports will be lodged with the NMRS.

Sponsor: Penspen Ltd.

C McGill 1998.