What is recorded here

Ackergill Tower is a massive rectangular keep built about 1500 in Highland, Scotland. Five storeys tall with walls ten feet thick, it has stood since the medieval period and was still occupied when last described. The Keiths, Sinclair Earls of Caithness, and Dunbars of Hempriggs all held it at different times, while Cromwellian troops garrisoned it in 1651. Two lean-to dovecots and modern outbuildings still cluster around its base, and a gunflint recovered from the site hints at meals eaten under threat.

Scotland's National Record of the Historic Environment records Ackergill Tower as Tower House (medieval). The official map says its point is accurate as follows: NGR given to the nearest 1m. The record does not by itself mean that the public may enter the place.

Ackergill Tower is a 16th-century tower house built by the Gordon family in Sutherland, Scotland. It is remembered for its strategic location and as an example of medieval defensive architecture in the Scottish Highlands.

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