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List of names as written Various modes of spelling Authorities for spelling Situation Description remarks
CASTLE HILL Castle Hill (Site of Castle)
Castle Hill (Site of Castle)
Castle Hill (Site of Castle)
Castle Hill (Site of Castle)
James McArthur
R. Glen
Mr. Irvine Dumbarton
Full. [Fullarton's] Gazetteer
022 A small wooded eminence immediately west of a farm house of the same name. It is traditionally handed down that a residence, of King Robert Bruce, had been here. No vestige of it now remains.
"On an eminence in the southwestern extremity of the parish still known as Castelhill, the King built a castle suitable to his dignity, and in the latter part of his life took seclusion as frequently as the state of public affairs permitted. In the household accounts of the Grand Chamberlain, we see Bruce enjoying himself at Cardross in company with his nephew, Randolph. At one time he is busy building Vessels, then he is making experiments in sailing them, at another time he is improving his hunting establishment, and again he is found improving the Castle or adorning the pleasure grounds, It was to Cardross Bruce retired, when a desease, contracted amid the hardships of the battlefield, seemed likely to prove fatal, and in a chamber of the castle there did the Restorer of Scottish Independence breathe his last. Every vestige of the building itself has been long since destroyed."
Irvine's History of Dumbartonshire
Site of CASTLE [Castle Hill] 022 [See entry for Castle Hill.]

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