Monument record MHG4638 - Muckrach Castle

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Grid reference Centred NH 9858 2505 (34m by 39m) (Buffered by site type)
Map sheet NH92NE
Old County INVERNESS-SHIRE
Civil Parish DUTHIL AND ROTHIEMURCHUS
Geographical Area BADENOCH AND STRATHSPEY

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NH92NE 1 9857 2504

see also NH92NE 14 NH 986 251 Building

(NH 9857 2504) Muckrach Castle (AD. 1598) (NAT) (in ruins)
OS 6"map, Inverness-shire, 2nd ed., (1903)

Muchrach Castle was built in 1598 by the second son of John Grant of Freuchie and was the original seat of the Grants of Rothiemurchus.
The square Keep, of simple design had at one time extensive buildings connected with it and forming a courtyard. These are now only traceable from the green mounds which cover their ruins.
The Keep basement is vaulted, the hall being on the first floor. Above this were two floors and attics approached by a corkscrew staircase in a turret corbelled out in the angle.
D MacGibbon and T Ross 1887-92.

As described and planned by MacGibbon and Ross. Muckrach Castle is now a roofless shell.
Surveyed at 1/2500.
Visited by OS (R L) 11 September 1966.

BAS Local Plan, Sept. 1997: P19/2.5.13. Historic Buildings and P35/4.10.2.
J Aitken : 24/05/01.

Now restored, and currently (2011) holiday let. <1>

Sources/Archives (4)

  • --- Text/Publication/Volume: Fraser, Sir W. 1883. The chiefs of Grant.
  • --- Text/Publication/Volume: MacGibbon, D and Ross, T. 1887-92. The castellated and domestic architecture of Scotland from the twelfth to the eighteenth centuries. Hardback. Vol. 2, 77; plan, illust..
  • --- Text/Publication/Volume: Watson and Watson, J and W. 1868. Morayshire described: being a guide to visitors, containing notices of ecclesiastical and military antiquities, topographical descriptions of the principal country residences, towns and villages and genealogical notes of the leading families in the county.
  • <1> Collection/Project Archive: Archaeology for Communities in the Highlands (ARCH). 2012. Digital site gazetteer and archive for ARCH Community Timeline Project: Boat of Garten. Yes. Digital. Site 10.

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May 25 2016 9:43AM

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