Macbeth's Castle
Castle (Medieval)
Site Name Macbeth's Castle
Classification Castle (Medieval)
Canmore ID 13436
Site Number NH64NE 8
NGR NH 6737 4558
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/13436
- Council Highland
- Parish Inverness And Bona
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Inverness
- Former County Inverness-shire
NH64NE 8 6737 4558
(NH 67374558) Supposed site of Castle (OE)
OS 6" map, (1938).
This castle was razed to the ground by Malcolm in revenge of his father's murder. No trace of it is to be seen.
Statistical Account (OSA) 1793.
An old Ms. dated 1635 in the archives of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, relative ot the family of Cuthbert of Castlehill, states that then there were still traces of the old castle to be seen. About 1802-3, while some labourers were trenching a portion of the adjacent farm on the eastern side of Castlehill, they met with a quantity of rubbish and the foundations of walls supposed to have belonged to the castle. (See also Inverness Castle - NH64NE 9)
J Anderson 1831.
At the eastern point of the eminence called The Crown, half a mile east of Inverness, Macbeth's Castle is said by tradition to have stood. Within living memory fragments of a castellated building, and also stone coffins or urns, have been dug upon the spot; but when these were found, is not known.
OS Name Book 1868.
No trace of this castle remains, the site being occupied by houses.
Visited by OS (W D J), 29 March 1960.
Note (1979)
Inverness, Macbeth's Castle NH 673 455 NH64NE 8
No traces are visible of the 11th-century castle which traditionally stood about 600m ENE of the E extremity of the medieval burgh of Inverness; what are said to have been the foundations of castle-walls were discovered about 1802. The name has also been applied to the castle which formerly stood at NH 666 451. See also NH64NE&SE.
RCAHMS 1979
Anderson, J 1831; Name Book, Inverness, no. 23, p. 138; OS Record Card N H 64 NE 9
