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Tulloch Castle

Tower House (16th Century)
Tulloch Castle
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Tulloch Castle is a modern house built 1918 to 1923 that swallowed the basement of an early sixteenth-century tower, preserving gun-loops and lights inside its southwest angle. The older structure burned around 1850, leaving ruins for Robert Adam to imagine and Sir Robert Lorimer to rebuild. A dormer pediment at the nearby Mains of Tulloch still bears the initials AD, perhaps carried from the castle by the Davidson family who held Tulloch from 1760.
Scotland's National Record of the Historic Environment records Tulloch Castle as Tower House (16th Century). 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.
Tulloch Castle, a 16th-century tower house, was likely built by a local Scottish noble family, though specific builders or holders are not recorded. It is remembered as a historic example of a defensive residence from the late medieval period in Scotland.

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Photo: Mary and Angus Hogg · CC BY-SA 2.0