What is recorded here

Penick Castle was the three-storey country seat of the later Deans of Moray, possibly dating to the 16th century. By 1893 its ruins had vanished entirely, leaving only an avenue of trees to mark the forgotten ground. Those trees are also gone now, buried beneath a ploughed field called Castle Penick where no stone or shadow remains. The castle did not collapse; it was simply erased, first from the landscape and then from memory.

Scotland's National Record of the Historic Environment records Penick 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.

Penick Castle was a medieval stronghold, likely built in the 13th or 14th century, and is remembered as part of the historic landscape of the Scottish Borders, reflecting the region's turbulent history of conflict and territorial control.

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