. The parish of Strathblane and its inhabitants from early times : a chapter in Lennox history. h it were two large square towers, one of which is quitein ruins, and the other is entire, and a most interesting specimen, both within andwithout, of the architecture of Scotland at a very early date. The part of thehouse fronting the loch, and one ofthe towers, were allowed to fall intoruins after they were herried bythe Buchanans in 1644,- and beamsfrom them were carried off and usedin building houses in the neighbour-hood. Thus the roof-tree of thehouse at Edenbarnet in Kilpatrick—itself about t
. The parish of Strathblane and its inhabitants from early times : a chapter in Lennox history. h it were two large square towers, one of which is quitein ruins, and the other is entire, and a most interesting specimen, both within andwithout, of the architecture of Scotland at a very early date. The part of thehouse fronting the loch, and one ofthe towers, were allowed to fall intoruins after they were herried bythe Buchanans in 1644,- and beamsfrom them were carried off and usedin building houses in the neighbour-hood. Thus the roof-tree of thehouse at Edenbarnet in Kilpatrick—itself about to be swept away—issaid to be the identical oaken beamthat held the same place of honourin ancient Mugdock.^ The latehouse of Mugdock, removed in1875, was built of the ruins ofthe original mansion in was but a poor dwelling for amarquis, and had little of interestabout it, except one vaulted chamber,which, however, had been hopelesslyruined by clumsy modern attempts to restore it. On taking down this oldplace some oak beams which had formed a part of the older house were found. RUINS OF OLD TOWER. 1 It is a matter of extreme regret that this chapel, which stands about 100 yards to the northof the castle, has not been better cared for. Till some thirty years ago its walls were nearlyentire. The door was in the middle of the south side, and within and on the right side of itwas still to be seen the stone basin which of old held the holy water. After Bailie MLellan,who was for long tenant of Mugdock, died, the fine old place was shamefully neglected, and muchirreparable damage done. Every effort is now being made to preserve the objects of interest whichremain. 2This was the second time Mugdock had been herried. In 1641, when Montrose was inprison, Lord Sinclair, by direction of the Committee of Estates, violently brak up the yeitts anddoors of the Place of Old Montrose, when searching among the Earls papers. The sameviolence was used at ane other house of the said E
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