What is recorded here
Halkirk, Braal Castle is a 20th-century military camp in the Highland, Scotland, where armed people trained or waited while the world changed. The camp may have smelled of wet wool, engine oil and fear. Men may have marched past Braal Castle until muscle remembered the route, then forgot the reason. The army left behind a shape in the ground, not a lesson.
Scotland's National Record of the Historic Environment records Halkirk, Braal Castle as Military Camp (20th Century). 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.
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Places near here
Braal CastleCountry House (period Unassigned) · 118 yd
Abbey ChurchRuins · 420 yd
HalkirkBroch (iron Age)(possible), Cairn (period Unassigned)(possible) · 625 yd
Halkirk War MemorialMemorial · 985 yd
Halkirk, Bridge Street, Ross Institute, War MemorialWar Memorial (20th Century) · 986 yd
AchiesNo Class (event) (period Unassigned) · 3.0 mi
Achlachan MossForest · 3.9 mi
Thurso, Mount Vernon, CemeteryCemetery (19th Century) · 4.7 mi
Beinn FreiceadainMountain / peak · 5.5 mi
Thurso CastleCastle (17th Century) · 5.5 mi