Edinglassie, Dovecot
Dovecot (Period Unassigned)
Site Name Edinglassie, Dovecot
Classification Dovecot (Period Unassigned)
Canmore ID 17277
Site Number NJ43NW 4
NGR NJ 4225 3877
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/17277
- Council Aberdeenshire
- Parish Glass
- Former Region Grampian
- Former District Gordon
- Former County Aberdeenshire
Edinglassie Castle. A Gordon fortalice, burned in 1688 by General Mackay during first Jacobite troubles; recollected only by a 17th-century lectern-type doocot at the farmsteading.
Taken from "Aberdeenshire: Donside and Strathbogie - An Illustrated Architectural Guide", by Ian Shepherd, 2006. Published by the Rutland Press http://www.rias.org.uk
NJ43NW 4 4225 3877.
The remains of a square dovecot, c. 16th-17th century , at NJ 4226 3877, some 56.0m E of the site of Edinglassie Castle (See NJ43NW 2). It measures 4.3m square internally over walls, 0.7m thick, of random masonry with rubble infilling roughly coursed and mortared. The N wall containing nesting boxes is almost complete; the E and W walls are partially destroyed; and only the footings of the S wall remain. The entrance is in the W wall. Probably associated with Edinglassie Castle.
Re-surveyed at 1/2500.
Visited by OS (NKB) 3 February 1967.
W Barclay 1907.
