Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for Red Castle

Red Castle, seat, Killearnan par., Ross and Cromarty, on N. shore of Beauly Firth, 6½ miles NW. of Inverness; claims to be the oldest inhabited castle in Scotland, having been originally built in 1179 by David, brother of William the Lion.


(John Bartholomew, Gazetteer of the British Isles (1887))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "seat"   (ADL Feature Type: "residential sites")
Administrative units: Killeranan ScoP       Ross and Cromarty ScoCnty
Place: Redcastle

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