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List of names as written Various modes of spelling Authorities for spelling Situation Description remarks
Remains of ROSYTH CASTLE Rosyth Castle
Rosyth Castle (Remains of)
Rosyth Castle (Remains of)
Rosyth Castle (Remains of)
Rosyth Castle (Remains of)
Rosyth Castle (Ruin)
Castle of Rosyth
Rosythe Castle
Johnston's Co. [County] Map
Mr. Fraser, Town Clerk Inverkeithing
Mr. Grant, Manager of the Bank Inverkeithing
Mr. Miller, Bailie, Inverkeithing
Mr. Scott, Foundry Inverkeithing
Gellatleys Map
Sibbalds Fife & Kinross
Gross's Antiquities
039 [situation] About 40 Chains S.S.E. [South South East] of Rosyth.
A tower and part of a wall of this castle only remain. It is situated on a Small Island between High and Low Water Mark in the Firth of Forth. Queen Mary is said to have slept in it the first night after her flight from Loch Leven Castle - The property of the Earl of Hopeton.
ROSYTH COTTAGE Rosyth Cottage
Rosyth Cottage
Rosyth Cottage
Rosyth Cottage
Mr Robert Mitchel
Mr. Thomas Mitchel
Mr. Thomas Thomson
Revd. [Reverend] Mr. Johnston
039 [situation] About 50 Chains S.E. by S. [South East by South] of Rosyth.
A neat cottage and garden the property of the Earl of Hopeton

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30 Plan 39A Inverkeithing Parish

[Note - Remains of Rosyth Castle] In German text

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"Situated upon a small rock, connected by a causeway with the Mainland, stands the Castle of Rosyth, It is a ruinous square tower, forming the northeast angle of what must have been a pretty large building. Over the gateway is a mouldered armorial bearing, surmounted by a Crown, and M.R. 1561. On the stone bars of the great windows of the hall, which are evidently much more recent than the original loop - holes "F*S" and "M.N" "Anno 1639". There appear to be the remains of a four gun battery on the side of the rock next to the sea. This Castle is said by Sir Robert Sibbald to have been the seat of Stewart of Rosyth or Durisdeer, a descendent of James Stewart brother to Walter, the great Steward of Scotland, and father of Robert II. There is tradition that the Mother of Oliver - Cromwell was born in it, and that the Protector visited it when he commanded the Army in Scotland. " New Stat. Acct. [Statistical Account] "The castle stands a little above the North Ferry Opposite Hopetoun house I have not been able to learn at what time or by whom it was built" Gross's Antiquities

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