What is recorded here

Kilcoy Castle is a four-storey tower house built from warm red rubble on the Black Isle, its walls still marked by gun-loops and shot-holes from the seventeenth century. James Stewart of Newton began the work in 1618 before Alexander MacKenzie acquired the property, and the castle stood roofless until Ross & Macbeth restored it around 1890. The original entrance hid in the re-entrant angle beside the SE tower, but the later south-front door is the one people use now.

Scotland's National Record of the Historic Environment records Kilcoy Castle as Tower House (17th 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.

Kilcoy Castle, a 17th-century tower house in Scotland, was likely built by a local landed family, though specific builders or holders are not recorded. It is remembered as a surviving example of early Scottish domestic architecture and the defensive structures of the post-medieval period.

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