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| List of names as written | Various modes of spelling | Authorities for spelling | Situation | Description remarks |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ELPHINGSTONE TOWER | Elphingstone Tower | Archibald McKinley James Smeaton Co. [County] Map dated 1847, Fullarton's Gazetteer page 766 |
013 | A large old Tower and Mansion house agglomerated with each other. The Tower is five Storeys high and is a parallelogram 60 links by 80, having a dome roof Port-holes. etc. The mansion is in itself a large massive building three Storys high and in good repair and now inhabited as a farm house. The Tower is in a State of dilapidation was erected as a Baronial residence about the close Of the 14th Century. The Mansion was built in 1600 and was for Some time before the Reformation, the residence of Cardinal Beaton. |
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