What is recorded here

No wall from the old bishopric survives, yet workmen digging foundations for the new castle uncovered two cists hidden beneath the demolished site. That ghostly layer suggests human hands shaped the ground long before Andrew Carnegie rebuilt the place in 1900. The present castle is therefore a young building wearing the memory of a much older residence, with lost lives still sleeping under its floors.

Scotland's National Record of the Historic Environment records Skibo Castle as Cist (period Unassigned). The official map says its point is accurate as follows: NGR given to the nearest 100m. The record does not by itself mean that the public may enter the place.

Skibo Castle was built in the 19th century by Sir Robert McAlister, a wealthy Glasgow merchant, and later became the family seat of the Carnegie family after it was purchased by Andrew Carnegie in 1887. It is remembered as the Scottish home of the prominent industrialist and philanthropist Andrew Carnegie.

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