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List of names as written Various modes of spelling Authorities for spelling Situation Description remarks
CLEISH CASTLE Cleish Castle
Cleish Castle
Clesih Castle
Cleish Castle
Place of Cleish
Parknook
Cleish Park
Henry Young Esquire (Occupier) and owner.
Mr. Peter Craig Teacher Cleish Parochial School.
Mr William Curror Nivingston.
Estate Map.
New Stat. Acct. [Statistical Account]
Road Surveyors Map.
Bell's Co. [County] Map 1796
030 [Situation] 3/4 Mile W. [West] of Cleish.
A fine looking Old Stronghold in the Castellated style of the Elizabethan Age, at least the uppermost part on which is the date 1600 probably intended to show the time when Lord Colville of Culross notable for his zeal towards the Reformation became owner of the Castle and Lands of Cleish. There is no distinct record to point out the date of the under part of the Castle, which from its peculiar Arched Structure is evidently of greater age than the date 1600. In the Old Register of Dunfermline Commencing in the 11th Century may be found the Name of Archibald Meldrum of Clesse and in 1469 Squire Meldrum of the same ilk was Sheriff Depute of the Shires of Fife and Kinross. And in the time of James V another Squire Meldrum of Cleish and [continued on page 38]

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[Page] 37 Plan 30A Trace No.6 Parish of Cleish.

Note: "The oldest buildings in the parish
are those of Cleish and Dowhill. The house
usually called the Place of Cleish, is
85 feet high, the walls still almost
entire." New Stat. Acct. [Statistical Account]"

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