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The basement and first floor are vaulted
and the walls are 5'.6" thick. There are horizontal gun:
:loops through the angles at the basement a few
inches above ground level and also at the
same level through the centres of the walls as
well as on the first floor. In the S. [South] wall
of the basement in the interior is a recess some
2' wide by 1'.6" deep now bricked up at the
hatchway top which may have given access to the
floor above. A considerable addition is
said to have been made to the tower in the
first half of the 17th century and it was probably
at that period that a wing measuring at
base some 26' x 28' was built partially
against the W. [West] end of the N. [North] wall. This
wing is vaulted in the basement and does
not rise to the full height of the keep as it
is now. The Castle is situated
about 1/4 m. [mile] back from the N. [North] Coast and
some [--] ms [miles] E. [East] from Thurso.
Mound Barrogill (7)
In a cultivated field about 1/4 m. [mile] WSW. [West South West] of
Barrogill Castle is a low mound lying
N [North] and S. [South] measuring some 50' x 27' in diameter
and 2' - 3' in elevation. The level in the
field adjacent indicate that it is a rem:
:nant of a larger construction which has
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