Where is Kilcoy Castle?

Kilcoy Castle is in Scottish Highlands, in the United Kingdom — coordinates 57.5288°, -4.3788°.

Castles · Scottish Highlands

Kilcoy Castle

Kilcoy Castle in Scotland Islands, United Kingdom.

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Typical visit: 1.5 h–3 h

Kilcoy Castle is a place of interest in Scotland Islands, United Kingdom — drawn from open-data sources for visitor reference. See the linked Wikipedia article for the full description.

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From the Wikipedia article

Kilcoy Castle is a 16th-century castle near Muir of Ord and Tore on the Black Isle, in Ross and Cromarty, Scotland. Kilcoy Castle is a ‘Z’ plan fortalice dating from no later than 1618 and possibly founded as early as 1580 (contemporary with Dalcross Castle QV).

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Background

History

The castle was built beginning as early as 1580 by the Stewart family, and completed by Alexander Mackenzie, third son of Colin Cam Mackenzie of Kintail around 1618. As a result of his marriage (contract 15 August 1611) to the widow of Sir James Stewart of Kilcoy, he had a charter of the lands of Kilcoy dated 18 July 1616 and a further charter of the Barony of Kilcoy dated 29 January 1618. The estates passed through the male line of the Mackenzies of Kilcoy until the death in 1883 of Sir Evan Mackenzie, 2nd Baronet, when they were inherited by his eldest daughter, who married a Colonel Burton. It fell into a ruinous state during the late 18th and 19th Centuries and was restored in 1891 by…

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