Tillycairn Castle
| Tillycairn Castle | ||
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| Creation time : | 1542 | |
| Castle type : | Niederungsburg (Tower House) | |
| Conservation status: | restored | |
| Standing position : | Scottish nobility | |
| Construction: | Quarry stone / ashlar | |
| Place: | Cluny | |
| Geographical location | 57 ° 11 '32.6 " N , 2 ° 33' 22.3" W | |
| Height: | 159 m ASLTemplate: height / unknown reference | |
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Tilly Cairn Castle is a restored lowland castle ( Tower House ) with L-shaped floor plan of the 16th century. It is located on a hill about 2 miles southeast of Cluny in the Scottish county of Aberdeenshire .
history
It is believed that the castle was fortified at the behest of Matthew Lumsden in 1542, following the sacking of Clan Strachan of Lynturk in the course of the feud between Clan Gordon and Clan Forbes . In 1672, when the last of the Lumsden family died, the castle fell to Thomas Burnett from Sauchen . Thereafter there were links between Tillycairn Castle and the Forbes clan until it fell to the Gordons in the early 18th century.
In 1722 the castle fell into ruin, but David Lumsden , who bought it from the Cluny estate in 1973 , had it restored from 1980-1984 under the supervision of the architect Ian Begg .
description
The four-story tower house is small with thick walls that were built in the lower part from large boulders. It has rounded corners and all but one gable have corner turrets. In the inner corner there is a semicircular stair tower with a caphouse made of ashlar . The main entrance is next to the stair tower. Once there was a parapet on the west side of the extension. The Tower House is provided with consoles on the roof edge . The extension is five stories high.
Inside, the ground floor is divided into three rooms with vaulted ceilings ; one of these is the kitchen with a large arched stove. The knight's hall fills the entire first floor. It has a nice open fireplace and a sink with a drain. Above the open fireplace there is a so-called Laird's Lug , a secret chamber in which the Laird could secretly listen to the conversations in the great hall. The sleeping chambers were on the upper floors.
Historic Scotland has listed Tillycairn Castle as a Category A Historic Building.
Individual evidence
- ^ A b c d e Maurice Lindsay: The Castles of Scotland . Constable, 1986. ISBN 0-09-473430-5 . P. 449.
- ↑ a b c d Listed Building - Entry . In: Historic Scotland .
- ↑ a b c Tillycairn Castle . In: Canmore . Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland. Retrieved February 9, 2018.