Remains of Craiglockhart Castle
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Remains of Craiglockhart Castle
Image: © kim traynor Taken: 7 Aug 2010
The stump of a tower house in the grounds of Napier University's Craiglockhart campus. Little is known of its history, except that it was granted by James IV "to Thomas Kincaid, son of Thomas Kincaid burgess of Edinburgh on resignation by Patrick Kincaid of Craiglockhart, the lands of the same with tower and fortalice". (RCAHMS Report, 1929)
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