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| List of names as written | Various modes of spelling | Authorities for spelling | Situation | Description remarks |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| QUEEN MARGARET'S INCH | Queen Margaret's Inch | Mr. Robert White, Town Clerk's Office, Forfar Revd. [Reverend] Alexander Campbell Mr. William Ray, Lochside Mr. William Barry, Inchgarth Jervise's "Memorials of Angus and Mearns" P. [Page] 3 to 9 |
038 | A peninsula jutting into the Loch of Forfar, near Inchgarth, which in former times was an island. It rises about 12 feet above the water, and, though now bare, pasture land, was, within the memory of people whom I have spoken to, covered with trees, shrubs, and flowers. There is reason for believing that there was a castle built on it, in the 11th. century by Malcolm of Canmore, and a Chapel in 1234, by Alexander II. There is no trace of these buildings now, but a farmhouse adjacent, called Lochside, was built about a hundred years ago from the stones taken therefrom; and this is not the only house in the erection of which the stones were used. Mr. Charles Wishart, aged 85 and Mr. James Dair, aged 81 - state that they have seen large quantities of the stones lying about on the Inch, some of which being jams of doors and windows, shewed clearly that they were part of a dwelling. At the north east end there is a portion of a ditch, evidently artificial, still remaining. It runs from the level of the ground to 6 feet in depth, and is believed to have been connected with the castle, and some even suppose that it served to detach the Inch from the mainland. It existed before these two old men. The Inch was formed in piles, but the piles cannot now be seen. A causeway ran from the point of the Inch into the Loch - It is current in the neighbourhood that it went across the loch, but Mr. White states that he has fished along it, but that it led into too deep water to form a passage across the loch, and it is well known that the loch is much lower now than it was in earlier times. Nearly every [continued on page 35] |
| Supposed Site of CASTLE (11th. Century) [Queen Margaret's Inch] | supposed site of Castle | Mr. Robert White, Town Clerk's Office, Forfar Revd. [Reverend] Alexander Campbell Mr. William Ray, Lochside Mr. William Barry, Inchgarth Jervise's "Memorials of Angus and Mearns" P. [Page] 3 to 9 |
038 | A peninsula jutting into the Loch of Forfar, near Inchgarth, which in former times was an island. It rises about 12 feet above the water, and, though now bare, pasture land, was, within the memory of people whom I have spoken to, covered with trees, shrubs, and flowers. There is reason for believing that there was a castle built on it, in the 11th. century by Malcolm of Canmore, and a Chapel in 1234, by Alexander II. There is no trace of these buildings now, but a farmhouse adjacent, called Lochside, was built about a hundred years ago from the stones taken therefrom; and this is not the only house in the erection of which the stones were used. Mr. Charles Wishart, aged 85 and Mr. James Dair, aged 81 - state that they have seen large quantities of the stones lying about on the Inch, some of which being jams of doors and windows, shewed clearly that they were part of a dwelling. |
| Site of CHAPEL (1234) [Queen Margaret's Inch] | site of Chapel | Mr. Robert White, Town Clerk's Office, Forfar Revd. [Reverend] Alexander Campbell Mr. William Ray, Lochside Mr. William Barry, Inchgarth Jervise's "Memorials of Angus and Mearns" P. [Page] 3 to 9 |
038 | A peninsula jutting into the Loch of Forfar, near Inchgarth, which in former times was an island. It rises about 12 feet above the water, and, though now bare, pasture land, was, within the memory of people whom I have spoken to, covered with trees, shrubs, and flowers. There is reason for believing that there was a castle built on it, in the 11th. century by Malcolm of Canmore, and a Chapel in 1234, by Alexander II. There is no trace of these buildings now, but a farmhouse adjacent, called Lochside, was built about a hundred years ago from the stones taken therefrom; and this is not the only house in the erection of which the stones were used. Mr. Charles Wishart, aged 85 and Mr. James Dair, aged 81 - state that they have seen large quantities of the stones lying about on the Inch, some of which being jams of doors and windows, shewed clearly that they were part of a dwelling. |
| DITCH [Queen Margaret's Inch] | 038 | At the north east end [of Queen Margaret's Inch] there is a portion of a ditch, evidently artificial, still remaining. It runs from the level of the ground to 6 feet in depth, and is believed to have been connected with the castle, and some even suppose that it served to detach the Inch from the mainland. It existed before these two old men. The Inch was formed in piles, but the piles cannot now be seen. A causeway ran from the point of the Inch into the Loch - It is current in the neighbourhood that it went across the loch, but Mr. White states that he has fished along it, but that it led into too deep water to form a passage across the loch, and it is well known that the loch is much lower now than it was in earlier times. Nearly every [continued on page 35] |
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[Page] 34Parish of Glamiss, Co. [County] of Forfar -- Sheet 38-7 Trace 1 -- Names collected by Thomas Lynch C/a [Civilian assistant]
[Note]
Extracts from "Memorials of Angus and Mearns" by Andrew Jervise.
"But this latter point may now be considered pretty well established" (there being two castles at Forfar,
the site of one being still well marked in the town of Forfar) "since, within a hundred and fifty years after the death
of that King" (Malcolm of Canmore) "record shews that Robert de Quincy made over to Roger de Argenten
what he terms "my old castle of Forfar, which our Lord King William gave to me in lieu of a toft".
Jervise supposes the old castle, here alluded to , to be the one on "Queen Margarets Inch". The inch, he says,
was an artificial island, composed, as is yet apparent, of large piles of oak and loose stones and
layers of earth" and though now accessible from land, is said to have been reached by a drawbridge
"Assuming, therefore, that the old castle of Forfar stood upon Queen Margaret's Inch, it
had been there, according to Boyce and others, that King Malcolm held his first Parliament".
"It is certain that a religious house was established upon it" (Queen Margaret's Inch) by
Alexander II in 1234 and that, besides money and other privileges, he gave the two officiating
monks pasture for six cows and a horse on his lands of Tyrbeg".
(See Brev. Antiq. Reg. de Cupro [Brevis Antiquum Registrum de Cupro in Anegus - Short old Register of Coupar in Angus)
The Statistical account of Forfarshire says P. [Page] 695. "On the north side of the Loch
of Forfar, there is a peninsula called the Inch. It has obviously been artificially
formed". --- "It is said that Margaret, Queen of Malcolm Canmore, had a residence
upon it. The ruins of walls of considerable thickness were recently to be traced upon it".
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