What is recorded here
Colinton Castle appears in a national record as a possible chapel with no known period, reducing a grand name to a question mark. That uncertainty is not a failure of imagination but a reminder that evidence must still lead. A chapel may have stood where memory now hesitates, yet no invented date or claim should enter the story.
Scotland's National Record of the Historic Environment records Colinton Castle as Chapel (period Unknown)(possible). The official map says its point is accurate as follows: NGR given to the nearest 100m. The record does not by itself mean that the public may enter the place.
The historic-place record does not grant public access. Check current conditions and ownership before entering land or a building.
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Photo: Richard Webb · CC BY-SA 2.0