What is recorded here

Innerwick Castle is a ruined medieval stronghold on the edge of a precipitous glen in East Lothian, built in the 14th century for the Stewarts and Hamiltons. It survived a 1406 siege, sheltered a wounded English herald in 1542, and resisted capture until Edward Seymour’s men entered its basement and burned it in 1547. The Hamiltons kept returning to its shadow, dressing their children in purple and green, fighting for Mary, Queen of Scots, and using the castle against Cromwell’s lines long after its walls had broken.

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

Innerwick Castle was built in the late 14th or early 15th century by the de Vesci family, a prominent noble family in northern Scotland. It is remembered as a strategic stronghold in the historic region of Easter Ross and as an example of medieval defensive architecture in the Scottish Highlands.

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