What is recorded here

Myres Castle is a Z-plan fortress built around 1530 in Fife, where ochre walls and a garlanded tower rise above fields that still need drainage because the name Myres means a boggy place. It served the Macers, the Sergeants of Arms of Falkland, and later became a private residence and conference venue surrounded by forty-four acres of gardens, maze and pond. The basement may be older still, perhaps fourteenth century, hidden beneath centuries of change, while the Fairlie family left shooting diaries and a wartime loss behind. To walk its grounds is to stand where water, stone and memory keep tangling together.

Scotland's National Record of the Historic Environment records Myres Castle as Fort (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.

Myres Castle is a medieval fortification, likely built during the late 12th or 13th century, and is associated with the historical defense and territorial control of the region in southern Scotland. Its importance lies in its role as a strategic stronghold in the borderlands, reflecting the turbulent history of the area during the Middle Ages.

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