What is recorded here

Skibo Castle, Terraced Garden, stands in Sutherland as a listed garden and wall, part of the wider Skibo Castle monument. The terraces and boundary suggest a place shaped for display, control and quiet enjoyment rather than ordinary farm work. Whether visitors walked those gardens or watched them from a distance, the stones still separate the castle grounds from the wilder land beyond.

Scotland's National Record of the Historic Environment records Skibo Castle, Terraced Garden as Garden (period Unassigned), Garden Wall (period Unassigned). 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.

Skibo Castle was built in the 19th century by Sir Robert McAlister, a wealthy Glasgow businessman, and later became the family seat of the Carnegie family after it was purchased by Andrew Carnegie in 1891. The castle and its terraced garden are important as a historic Scottish estate associated with industrial wealth and later philanthropy.

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