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MHG3449 - Fort - Castle Kitchie

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NH52NW 5 5386 2515.

(NH 5385 2514) Castle Kitchie (NAT) OS 6"map, Inverness-shire, 2nd ed., (1906)

Caisteal Cruinn, the round castle on Carn a' Chitsinn (the cairn of the kitchen) is in ruins.
N Fraser-Tytler 1929

Occupying level summit of a spur at NH 5384 2513 are remains of a fort, sub-oval on plan, defined by a robbed dry-stone wall, measuring overall approximately 35m NE-SW by 29m. The wall survives as a tumbled rubble core, with the base course of outer face visible in NW and S arcs. It is destroyed in NE, and its course is marked by a scarp in SE. On the NW side, the width of tumble, and the position of the outer face below the summit of the spur, indicates a wall thickness of 3.5m - 4.0m. No entrance is evident.
The name "Castle Kitchie" is applied locally to the ruins of a later building which occupies the interior of the fort. The names "Caisteal Cruinn", or "Carn a' Chitsinn" are not known.
Surveyed at 1:10,000 Enlargement at 1:1250.
Visited by OS (N K B) 14 April 1970

(NH 5386 2515) Castle Kitchie (NAT) Fort (NR) (remains of)
OS 1/10,000 map, (1972)

No change. Revised at 1/10,000.
Visited by OS (J M) 19 January 1979

This site was included in the Atlas of Hillforts of Britain and Ireland online database. See link below for site entry. <1>

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Grid reference	Centred NH 5385 2515 (100m by 100m) (2 map features)
Map sheet	NH52NW
Civil Parish	DORES
Geographical Area	INVERNESS

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