What is recorded here

Kilchrist Castle, Doocot is a dovecot in Argyll and Bute, Scotland, recorded without a clear period but marked on the official map to within ten metres. The name suggests a castle, yet the function was a dovecot, a building for keeping doves rather than for living or fighting. That difference matters because it reveals a practical side of estate life: food, status, or both. The place may have stood near a kitchen, a hall, or a busy lane, its flies and calls marking the rhythm of the house.

Scotland's National Record of the Historic Environment records Kilchrist Castle, Doocot as Dovecot (period Unassigned). 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.

Kilchrist Castle, Doocot is a 16th-century dovecot associated with the historic Kilchrist Castle estate in Midlothian, Scotland. It is remembered as an example of the agricultural and feudal systems of the period, reflecting the importance of dovecots in providing food and status to landowners.

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