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Comrie Castle

Curling Pond (period Unassigned)

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Comrie Castle is a curling pond in Fife, Scotland. Water sports still use the basin, while the castle name preserves a newer layer of local identity. The official point is accurate to one metre, yet the boundary between sport and history remains unclear. People may be measuring distance when they are actually measuring memory.
Scotland's National Record of the Historic Environment records Comrie Castle as Curling Pond (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.
Comrie Castle was a 16th-century tower house located in Perth and Kinross, Scotland, and was historically associated with the influential Keith family. It is remembered for its strategic position and as an example of early Scottish Renaissance architecture before its eventual ruin.

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