What is recorded here
Scotland's National Record of the Historic Environment records Tayport Castle as Castle (medieval). The official map says its point is accurate as follows: NGR given to the nearest 10m. The record does not by itself mean that the public may enter the place.
Tayport Castle was built in the late 14th or early 15th century by the Leslie family, a prominent Scottish noble lineage. It is remembered as a strategic stronghold in the defense of the Tay estuary and for its later use as a customs house and prison in the 17th and 18th centuries.
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Places near here
TayportBurgh (medieval), Town (period Unassigned) · 45 yd
Tayport, HarbourCrane (period Unassigned), Harbour (19th Century) · 184 yd
Tayport ChurchArmorial Panel (17th Century), Date Stone (17th Century) · 496 yd
Tayport, Queen Street, Tayport Primary SchoolSchool (period Unassigned) · 552 yd
Roofert RockNamed rock · 610 yd
Snook HeadHeadland · 1039 yd
Tayport CemeteryCemetery (19th Century) · 1189 yd
Hare LawMountain / peak · 1378 yd
Rocky outcrop at Broughty CastleCastle, fort or tower · 1640 yd
Between Castle and Harbour, BroughtyCastle, fort or tower · 1657 yd
Tullo BraesMountain / peak · 1737 yd
Beach StepsBeach · 1742 ydOther information
Photo: Peter Wood · CC BY-SA 2.0