Moniack Castle
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 Moniack Castle |
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| Castle type : | Niederungsburg (Tower House) | |
| Conservation status: | no traces | |
| Standing position : | Scottish nobility | |
| Construction: | Quarry stone , plastered | |
| Place: | Beauly | |
| Geographical location | 57 ° 27 '33 " N , 4 ° 24' 55.2" W | |
| Height: | 33 m ASLTemplate: height / unknown reference | |
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Moniack Castle is a tower house directly south of Beauly and about 11 km west of Inverness in the Scottish administrative division of Highland . The lowland castle were members of the clan Fraser in 1580 built. Historic Scotland has listed it as a Category B Historic Building.
history
The Tower House with an L-shaped floor plan has been rebuilt several times since its construction. The crenellated parapet was added in 1804 and the castle was expanded in the 1830s. Inside there is also a Roman Catholic chapel . On the property there is also the Balblair Stone , a Pictish symbolic stone in which a male figure is carved. He was brought there from the village of Kilmorack in 1903 .
Moniack Castle is the only castle that still belongs to a line of the Fraser of Lovat clan. They are therefore called the Moniack Frasers and are the largest sideline of the clan. They include over 250 descendants of the Hon. Alastair Fraser and Lady Sybill , b. Grimstone . Alastair Fraser received the castle from his older brother, Simon Fraser, 14th Lord Lovat, in 1926. Rory Fraser and his family now live there.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Listed Building - Entry . In: Historic Scotland .
- ↑ Moniack Castle . In: Canmore . Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland. Retrieved November 22, 2017.
- ↑ Balblair . In: Canmore . Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland. Retrieved November 22, 2017.
Web links and sources
- Moniack Castle . In: Canmore . Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland. Retrieved November 22, 2017.
- Moniack Castle Wineries website