What is recorded here

No stone of Claverhouse Castle remains above the soil in Angus, yet its ghosts still populate the memory of Glen Ogilvie. The Ogilvies held the strong place in the 14th century before the Grahams of Claverhouse transformed it into a pleasant residence with a good house and well-planted grounds. When John Graham fell at Killiecrankie in 1689, the crown stripped his kin and gave the land to the Douglas line, erasing the previous owners from the legal record. A farmer later dug up the foundation stones, and a man named Webster rebuilt them into a dovecot in 1834, turning a castle into a pigeon house before the last remnants vanished entirely.

Scotland's National Record of the Historic Environment records Claverhouse Castle as Castle (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.

Claverhouse Castle was built by the Clan Campbell in the 16th century and is remembered for its strategic role in the Scottish Highlands during the medieval period.

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