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Strathallan Castle, Home Farm

Farmhouse (period Unassigned), Farmstead (period Unassigned)
Strathallan Castle, Home Farm
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Strathallan Castle, Home Farm stands in Perth and Kinross as a farmhouse and farmstead, its boundaries marked only by an exact point on the national record. The name hints at a lost castle, yet no date or owner remains attached to the stones. Perhaps the farm swallowed the castle, reducing grandeur to fields and ordinary life.
Scotland's National Record of the Historic Environment records Strathallan Castle, Home Farm as Farmhouse (period Unassigned), Farmstead (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.
Strathallan Castle, Home Farm, is associated with the historic site of Strathallan Castle, which was originally built by the Comyns, a powerful noble family in medieval Scotland, in the 13th century. The site is historically significant as it was the location of a key battle in 1298 during the Wars of Scottish Independence, where John Comyn, Lord of Badenoch, was killed by Robert the Bruce.

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Photo: James Allan · CC BY-SA 2.0