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Perth Art Gallery

Perth Museum and Art Gallery

Perth Art Gallery is located at the Marshall Monument, George Street, Perth, Perth and Kinross, Scotland (Scottish Gaelic: Peairt, Peairt agus Ceann Rois, Alba). Construction of the Marshall Monument began in 1822 and it was opened as a library and museum in 1824. It was gifted to the city by the Literary and Antiquarian Society of Perth in 1915 on the condition that it was continued to be used only as a library or museum. An extension to the museum was opened in 1935  and it is  a category B listed building. The collections cover history, natural history and art including The St Madoes Stone, a Pictish eighth century AD carved slab stone.

Elcho Castle

Scotia Depicta - Elcho Castle [Plate] in collection of National Library of Scotland

Elcho Castle is a 16th century Z-plan tower house built by the Wemyss family. It is located  just under a mile north of the village of Rhynd, which is south of the River Tay (Scottish Gaelic: Tatha) and four miles southeast of Perth, Scotland (Scottish Gaelic: Peairt, Alba). The name of the village Rhynd comes from the Gaelic roinn meaning point or peninsula. This is a well preserved mid-sixteenth century Z-plan tower house with the remains of curtain walls and towers. 

Balvaird Castle

Balvaird Castle

This is located on a hilltop in the Ochil Hills off the A912 about three miles from Glenfarg (Scottish Gaelic: Gleann Fairg) which off the M90 south from Perth in Perthshire. It was built around 1500 and has a three storey L-shaped tower house which is open to the public during  summer weekends, but access to the site is open all year round. On the site are also the remains of a number of courtyard buildings.

Burleigh Castle

Burleigh Castle - © Copyright Supergolden and licensed for reuse under Creative Commons Licence.

Burleigh Castle is just outside the town of Milnathort,  which is about 1.5 miles north of Kinross, Perth and Kinross, Scotland (Scottish Gaelic: Ceann Rois, Peairt agus Ceann Rois, Alba). This is a fifteenth and sixteenth century castle that was originally home to the Balfours. The remains of the castle consist of the late fifteenth early sixteenth century tower house, a sixteenth century corner tower, part of the court yard and part of the curtain wall.

Lochleven Castle

Lochleven Castle. Engraving by William Millar after G. F. Sargent. Published in The Castles, Palaces and Prisons of Mary of Scotland. Charles Mackie. London. Painted 1831, published 1850.

Lochleven Castle is located on an island on the west of Loch Leven (Scottish Gaelic: Loch Liobhann) which is a fresh water loch in Perth and Kinross, Scotland (Scottish Gaelic: Peairt agus Ceann Rois, Alba). Parts of the remains of the castle date back to the thirteenth century with the square keep dating from the sixteenth century. It was the place of imprisonment for Mary Queen of Scots between 1567 and 1568. The castle is open to the public daily from the 1st April -31st October and reached by ferry from Kinross/Ceann Rois.

Edzell Castle

Edzell Castle © Copyright Anne Burgess and licensed for reuse under Creative Commons Licence.

Edzell Castle is a ruined 16th-century castle, with an early-17th-century walled garden. It is located close to the village of  Edzell, Angus, Scotland (Scottish Gaelic:  Eigill, Aonghas, Alba) which is about 5 miles north of Brechin. The castle did not endure much military action, and seems to have been designed for use as primarily a country house. In 1715 it was sold by the Lindsay family, and eventually came into the ownership of the Earl of Dalhousie. The house was given to the state in the 1930s, and is now under the care of by Historic Environment Scotland - Àrainneachd Eachdraidheil Alba and open to the public.

Brechin Town House Museum

Brechin Town House Museum image courtesy of VisitScotland.

Brechin Town House Museum is located at 28 High Street in the centre of the town of Brechin, Angus, Scotland (Scottish Gaelic: Breichinn, Aonghas, Alba). Amongst other historical items the museum also displays an eighteenth century Highland Bagpipes, a Jacobite Sporran owned by David Mitchell of Lethnot who was a sergeant in the rebel army and it was probably worn at Culloden and a Jet Necklace dated to about 1800 BC found in a cist in Mains of Melgund. The museum is open 10am-5pm Monday to Saturday.

Stone of Morphie

Stone of Morphie © Copyright Anne Burgess and licensed for reuse under Creative Commons Licence.

The Stone of Morphie is a prehistoric standing stone about ten feet in height. It is located about half a mile west of the Coast Highway (A92 road) and a bridge over the River North Esk (Scottish Gaelic: Easg Thuath) and about 500 yards east of the historic Mill of Morphie in Aberdeenshire, Scotland. This standing stone is traditionally said to mark the site of the burial of a son of Camus, a Danish warrior, said to have been killed in a battle with the Scots the early eleventh century AD. 

Montrose - Monadh Rois

Montrose Gazeteer of Scotland 1838

Montrose (Scottish Gaelic: Monadh Rois) is a town and former royal burgh in Angus, Scotland (Scottish Gaelic: Aonghas, Alba). This is a coastal port to the east of Brechin and is next to Montrose Basin which is a large inland salt water basin and important nature reserve. The area of Montrose has a number of sites of pre-historic interest including the Stone of Morphie standing stone to the north from the town. The town itself is on the site of an earlier Norse settlement. Within the town is the Museum of Montrose in Panmure Place. It contains the Pictish carved Inchbrayock Stone dating from 850-950AD as well as other Pictish stones and items from the Neolithic and Bronze ages.

Red Castle

Red Castle Lunan Bay image courtesy of Visit Angus

Red Castle of Lunan is a ruined fortified house. It is located close to the village of Lunan about 4 miles south-southwest of the town of Montrose (Scottish Gaelic: Monadh Rois) and overlooks Lunan Bay on the coast of Angus, Scotland (Scottish Gaelic: Aonghas, Alba). There was an earlier twelfth century fortress on this site, however, the present red sandstone ruins of Red Castle date largely from the 15th century. Only a part of the fifteenth century rectangular tower, and the 6.6 feet thick east curtain wall remain. 

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