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List of names as written Various modes of spelling Authorities for spelling Situation Description remarks
Site of CLAVERHOUSE CASTLE Claverhouse Castle (Site of) Mr Morris, schoolmaster
Mr Boase, Claverhouse Bleachfield
050 [Situation] In the Central portion of the Parish
This Castle was originally the residence of Lord Dundee, and is situated a short distance N.W [North West] of Claverhouse Bleachfield, there is an artificial ruin intended to mark the site but Mr Morris states that it is not the site - he pointed out the site as shewn on trace.

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[Page] 37
Sheet 50.13 Trace 6. -- Parish of Mains & Strathmartine.

[Notes]
"The foundations of the old Castle one of the proprietors of which (viz. Claverhouse) distinguished
himself in persecuting the Presbyterians under Charles II. were lately dug up by a farmer. There appeared
to have been a Popish Chapel belonging to the house as the fount altar, &c, were discovered."
Old Stat. Acct. [Statistical Account] Vol. [Volume] V. p. [page] 221.

"It may not be improper to mention that Claverhouse the residence of Lord Dundee is likewise situate
in this parish and that an edifice in the form of a ruin has lately been erected on the site of his mansion
by his lineal male descendent Mr. Webster formerly Graham of Balmuir."
New Stat. Acct. [Statistical Account] page 56-7

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