Scotland · Partial ruin
Castlecraig
Castlecraig (also called Craig Castle or Castle Craig) is a 16th‑century Scottish tower house on the south shore of the Cromarty Firth on the Black Isle. It survives today as a partially ruined tower with one wing still standing and roofed and the other collapsed. The site is protected as a scheduled monument.
Its prime
1560
Today
Partial ruin
As it stood in 1560
The shape it held in its prime.
A tall, slender 16th‑century rectangular stone tower house of reddish‑brown masonry standing alone on a low rise by the Cromarty Firth. The north‑east wing survives with a steep gabled roof and small rectangular window openings; a north‑west wing has collapsed to rubble. The tower’s walls are of roughly dressed sandstone, the upper gable visible above the surviving roofline, and the building sits amid open farmland and belts of trees with the firth and rolling hills beyond.
Its story
The story of Castlecraig.
Castlecraig — also known as Craig Castle or Castle Craig — is a 16th-century tower house on the south coast of the Cromarty Firth, on the Black Isle some 19 kilometres north of Inverness. The tower may have served as a residence of the post-Reformation Bishops of Ross, and Donald Monro, Dean of the Isles, may have lived here in the 1560s.
It survives as a partial ruin: the north-east wing still stands and remains roofed, while the north-west wing has collapsed. The site is protected as a scheduled monument — and its silhouette reached the far side of the world, lending its name to New Zealand's Castle Craig Rock, so called for its similar appearance.
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6 places to explore in 1560.
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