What is recorded here

Castle Menzies is a sixteenth-century Z-shaped stronghold in Perth and Kinross, built after the Place at Weem burned in 1502 and enlarged into a defensible residence with towers and battlements. Its thick internal wall still marks the older stronghold beneath the later castle, while Jacobite soldiers and Government troops took turns occupying it during the rebellions of 1715 and 1745. The Menzies families lived there for centuries until the last heir died without heirs in 1910, after which the estates and castle were divided and sold.

Scotland's National Record of the Historic Environment records Castle Menzies as Pit(s) (period Unassigned). 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.

Castle Menzies was built by the Menzies family, a prominent Scottish clan, in the 13th or 14th century. It is historically important as the ancestral seat of the Clan Menzies and as a symbol of their influence in Perthshire.

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