What is recorded here
The tower house of Claypotts Castle is a castle, fort or tower in Dundee City, Scotland. Perhaps its stones still hold the heat of hands that built them. Maybe shadows move through rooms where no one walks. Imagine a ladder ringing in an empty tower at midnight.
A named place photographed at this map point in Dundee City.
Claypotts Castle is a 16th-century tower house located near Dundee, built by the Keith family, a prominent Scottish noble lineage. It is remembered for its historical association with the Keiths and as an example of defensive domestic architecture in the Scottish Borders.
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Lifeboat Mona MemorialMemorial · 1586 yd
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Roofert RockNamed rock · 1.5 miOther information
Photo: James Denham · CC BY-SA 2.0