What is recorded here

Dunrobin Castle stands north of Golspie as the largest house in northern Scotland, a Scottish baronial and French Renaissance building shaped by Sir Charles Barry between 1835 and 1850 for George Sutherland-Leveson-Gower, 2nd Duke of Sutherland. Its oldest visible part is a square keep with walls over six feet thick and stone vaulted ceilings, first mentioned in 1401 and possibly named for Robert Sutherland, 6th Earl of Sutherland. The castle has also been a school, a public attraction and a family seat, but beneath every grand chamber is the older idea that the land itself remembers the people who held it.

Scotland's National Record of the Historic Environment records Dunrobin Castle as Coffin Cairn (post Medieval). The official map says its point is accurate as follows: NGR given to the nearest 10m. The record does not by itself mean that the public may enter the place.

Dunrobin Castle is a historic structure associated with the Earls and later Dukes of Sutherland, with its main construction phases dating from the 13th to 19th centuries. It is important as one of the oldest continuously inhabited castles in the Scottish Highlands and as a significant example of medieval and later Scottish architecture.

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