What is recorded here

Cortachy Castle, Airlie Lodge stands in Angus, Scotland, a small lodge whose age and purpose remain unrecorded. Its exact position is known to the nearest metre, yet no date or owner has been written beside it. The absence of facts does not diminish the place; it withholds judgment and waits for someone to walk up, touch the stone, and remember what the lodge was built to keep.

Scotland's National Record of the Historic Environment records Cortachy Castle, Airlie Lodge as Lodge (period Unassigned). 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.

Cortachy Castle, Airlie Lodge is a 16th-century tower house associated with the influential Gordon family of Airlie, who held the lands of Airlie in the Barony of Forfar. The castle is remembered as a significant example of Scottish Renaissance architecture and as a historic seat of a powerful noble family in the north-east of Scotland.

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