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| List of names as written | Various modes of spelling | Authorities for spelling | Situation | Description remarks |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| DOUNE CASTLE | Doune Castle Doune Castle Doune Castle Doune Castle Doune Castle Doune Castle |
Revd [Reverend] Gordon Mitchell, Doune James Cumming Robert Cumming Old Statistical Account New Statistical Account Fullarton's Gazetteer of Scotland. |
132 | This is an old castle situated on a narrow neck of land formed by the confluence of the Ardoch Burn with the river Teith. It consists of a large quadrangular yard, with the once inhabited part of the building on the northern Side of it. There is a round tower on the north-eastern corner of the castle which is about eighty feet in height - the highest part of the castle. The height of the wall of the yard is about forty feet. It is the opinion of some people that this castle was once surrounded by a moat, and of others that its approach was defended by a deep trench, similar to the ones before Edinburgh and Stirling castles: the latter is the most probable, as the elevated position of the castle together with the distance that water is below it, would have rendered the keeping of the moat in a supply of water a very difficult matter. Around the exterior of the castle and along the top of an artificial mound, on which the castle [continued on page 108] |
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[Page] 107County of Perth -- Ph [Parish] of Kilmadock -- 25 inch Sheet 132, Plan 1.
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