Garth Castle

in 1849–1850]] Garth Castle was built in 1384 by 1st Earl of Buchan, Alexander Stewart, who was 4th son of Robert II and grandson of Robert the Bruce. in 1502. On 31 January 1499, Neil Stewart, the 2nd Laid of Forthergill, died in Garth Castle and was buried in the graveyard of Dunkeld Cathedral. Neil Stewart II, Mariota Stewart née M'Quein, second wife was swept away in a torrent in the Keltnie burn that protects the castle, on 16 August 1545. Neil Stewart II had two children, John Stewart and Marie Stewart. A year later, Royalist Colonel Henry Wogan along with 30 of his men occupied that castle. On 16 December 1880, Currie launched , a steamer built in Glasgow by Barclay, Curle & Co, and…

Garth castle is built on a small grass covered knoll, which is nearly isolated from the adjacent fields by two deep ravines, through which flow two minor, but fast flowing streams, that are tributaries of the Keltnie burn. These streams unite a few yards below, or to the south of the promontory on which the castle stands; and the conjoint stream thence flows for several hundred metres through a finely wooded and picturesque ravine, unit it rejoins the Keltnie, about a mile above where the Keltnie burn joins the River Lyon. The tower is square in design, an architecture style termed donjon (keep), with walls constructed of a mix of unhewn boulders and quarried stones. The walls range from…