
What is recorded here
Dornoch, Skibo Castle Estate, Carnegie Golf Course is a 20th-century golf course recorded in 1995. It lies within the Highland estate, where grass and stone still carry the shape of Skibo Castle. The course may have brought visitors past ancient land, giving play a temporary home beside older memory.
Scotland's National Record of the Historic Environment records Dornoch, Skibo Castle Estate, Carnegie Golf Course as Golf Course (20th Century) (1995). 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.
Skibo Castle, part of the Dornoch, Skibo Castle Estate, was built by Sir William Carnegie in the 1850s and later expanded by his son, Andrew Carnegie, the Scottish-American industrialist, in the 1880s. The estate is historically significant as the summer home of Andrew Carnegie and is remembered for its association with one of the most influential figures of the 19th century.
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Photo: sylvia duckworth · CC BY-SA 2.0