What is recorded here

Hallyards, near Auchtertool, became Camilla after the Earls of Moray inherited it, though no countess named Camilla is recorded. French troops blew it up in 1560, Mary of Guise mocked John Knox with powder smoke still hanging in the air, and Kirkcaldy killed a Savoyard captain and fifty men in revenge. The house was demolished in 1847, but the name still moves through Auchtertool like a woman nobody can place.

Scotland's National Record of the Historic Environment records Hallyards as House (18th Century), Tower House (17th Century)(possible). 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.

Hallyards is a 17th- to 18th-century tower house and house in Scotland, though specific builders or holders are not recorded. Its survival contributes to understanding the evolution of domestic architecture and landholding patterns in lowland Scotland during that period.

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