
What is recorded here
Castle Craig is a four-storey tower on a cliff edge in Highland, Scotland, where the Urquharts built upon an older residence of the Bishops of Ross. The west wall has fallen away, leaving the interior open to the sea wind, while a curtain wall sits twenty metres north on a crag that the tide still undercuts. The bishops may have stayed there only occasionally after the Reformation, using the cliff as a private chamber with the ocean for a floor.
Scotland's National Record of the Historic Environment records Castle Craig as Pier (period Unassigned)(possible). The official map says its point is accurate as follows: NGR given to the nearest 100m. The record does not by itself mean that the public may enter the place.
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