What is recorded here

Armadale Castle's icehouse stands as a roofless stone box beside the main castle, its walls still rising a metre and a half above the grass. Built into the hillside, it likely stored winter ice for summer drinks, a quiet luxury hidden in plain sight. The structure measures twelve metres long and five metres wide, with an entrance cut into the east wall. Today heather and rush grow through the gap where ice once sat, turning a practical room into a ghost of domestic life.

Scotland's National Record of the Historic Environment records Skye, Armadale Castle as Icehouse (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.

Armadale Castle on Skye was built by the Macdonalds of Sleat in the 16th century and later held by the Macleods of Macleod. It is important as a historic seat of the Macleod clan and as a notable example of Scottish castle architecture on the Isle of Skye.

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