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passage through the wall 2' in width
probably gave access to a guard room.
Castle Girnigoe is a keep, a parallelogram on
plan, measuring 36' by 28' over the walls with
two wings on the E [East] or seaward face. The
S. [South] wing is small and contained the stair now
gone while the N. [North] wing in its basement con:
:tained the kitchen. The principal entrance
was by a drawbridge across the trench at
its N. [North] end and through a doorway in the W. [West]
wall. From this doorway a passage led to the
interior flanked on the right by a guard
room entered from the sea-ward end.
In the E [East] end of the guard room are three oillets,
one commanding the end of the passage from
the main doorway, another the approach from
the seaward end of the rock, and the other
the head of the stair leading up from the goe.

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From the NW. [North West] corner of the guard room a stair leads
to the dungeon partially cut out of the rock beneath the entrance passage.
It is lighted by one small aperture high in the
N. [North] wall and has a "guard robe" near the entrance.
The floor is now covered with boulders & stones
which have been carried in. --

A second entrance to the keep from the goe
passed through a small door above high water
line into the S. [South] end the trench. Beneath the

[Margin] (see Calder)

first floor the whole of the apartments & passages are
vaulted. Corbels for supporting a bretasche
project along the whole length of the sea
front at the second and top floor levels
and for a short distance [at] the latter level
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