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List of names as written | Various modes of spelling | Authorities for spelling | Situation | Description remarks |
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CORSTORPHINE CASTLE (In Ruins) | Corstotphine Castle (Ruins of) Corstorphine Castle in Ruins Corstorphine Castle in Ruins |
Revd.[Reverend] Burns Mr. G. Manson Stat. [Statistical] Acct.[Account] 1845 |
005 | This name applies to a ruin, situated S. of the village of Corstorphine wh[ich] was greatly demolished about 50 ye[ars] ago. It was the residence of the Forresters a name of great celebrity in Sco[ttish] History and occupied by one of the Family as late as 1698. In former times this Cas[tle] is said to have been surrounded [by] a ditch which was supplied by wa[ter] from two lochs situated one on each side of the castle as represented in Blair's Atlas of Lothian prepared in 1640. There is a Dove Cott or Pige[on]House about 7 chains N.E. [North East] of the castle said to be as ancient as [the] castle and at present is in go[od] preservation and used as a pigeo[n] House. |
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[page] 22 Corstorphine Parish32 -- Corstorphine Castle -- About 15 chains S. by E. [South by East]of Corstorphine
" When Corstorphine Castle the ancient residence of the Forresters,was levelled with the ground about fifty years ago some of the workmen engaged when digging near the house discovered a deposit of Gold and Silver Coins" Stat. Acct.[Statistical Account] of Edinburgh 1845 Page 217.
See also an historical account of the family of Corstorphine in the above volume, from page 209 to page 213.
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