What is recorded here

Old Kincardine Castle stood on a sharp glen promontory with fifteen-foot walls and a drawbridge, hosting kings, queens and chancellors until artillery and thirst broke it in 1645. Its stones were not lost but carried into the Auchterarder church tower, so the castle still rises there in new shape. The surviving gable wall remembers the violence, while the church tower remembers the reuse: even ruined places can be remade into public life.

Scotland's National Record of the Historic Environment records Kincardine Castle as Castle (medieval). 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.

Kincardine Castle was built in the 13th century by the Comyn family, a powerful noble lineage in medieval Scotland. It is historically significant as a strategic stronghold associated with the Comyns, who played a key role in Scottish politics and the Wars of Independence.

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