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Kirriemuir - Inverquharity Castle

[Inverquharity Castle]
Inverquharity Castle - 1940s

Inverquharity Castle is by the Gask Ridge frontier system which was "the earliest Roman land frontier in Britain, built in the 70s or 80's AD, 40 years before Hadrian's Wall and 60 years before the Antonine Wall."  The site of Inverquharity is 4.5 km to the NNE of modern Kirriemuir according to an extensive history of Inverquharity since Roman times.

According to Gateway To The Glens: A Historical Tour Of Glen Clova - "A couple of miles north of Kirriemuir is Inverquharity Castle, which takes its name from the adjacent Quharity burn.  Fourteen generations of Ogilvies owned Inverquharity from around 1420.  The present building, which has been restored, dates from about 1444, when James II granted a licence to Alexander Ogilvie to build an iron yett (gate).  Alexander became embroiled in a dispute with the Earl of Crawford, of Finavon Castle, which culminated in 1445 in the "Battle of Arbroath" lasting two days.  Both protagonists were killed..."

 
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