
What is recorded here
Scotland's National Record of the Historic Environment records Illieston Castle as House (16th 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.
Illieston Castle was a 16th-century fortified house, likely built by a local landholding family in the northeast of Scotland. It is remembered as an example of early defensive domestic architecture in the region during a period of political and military instability.
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