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Lunan, Red Castle

Cottage (period Unassigned)
Lunan, Red Castle
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Lunan, Red Castle is a small cottage in Angus, Scotland, recorded without a date or owner. It still belongs to nobody visible, though the land around it has been walked, worked and forgotten many times. The red name suggests fire, blood or clay, but the building gives no answer. It waits like a room with the lights off, holding the shape of a life that stopped being remembered.
Scotland's National Record of the Historic Environment records Lunan, Red Castle as Cottage (period Unassigned). 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.
Red Castle of Lunan was a 16th-century tower house built by the Lunan family in Angus, Scotland. It is remembered for its historical association with the region's medieval aristocracy and its remains contribute to understanding early Scottish domestic architecture.

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