. The castellated and domestic architecture of Scotland, from the twelfth to the eighteenth century. OOK Fig. 1S4.—Ackergill Tower. Plans and Section. was reached by the north-w^est wheel-stair, was similar in arrangement tothe floor just described. The top floor is entirely new, and is approached by the north-westturret stair, which also leads to the battlements. There is likewise aturret stair in the north-east angle of this floor leading to the roof. Immediately south-east of the tower stand the two dovecots, shown in THIRD PERIOD — 252 ACKERGILL TOWER Fig. 185. They are a little further of
. The castellated and domestic architecture of Scotland, from the twelfth to the eighteenth century. OOK Fig. 1S4.—Ackergill Tower. Plans and Section. was reached by the north-w^est wheel-stair, was similar in arrangement tothe floor just described. The top floor is entirely new, and is approached by the north-westturret stair, which also leads to the battlements. There is likewise aturret stair in the north-east angle of this floor leading to the roof. Immediately south-east of the tower stand the two dovecots, shown in THIRD PERIOD — 252 ACKERGILL TOWER Fig. 185. They are a little further off in reahty than shown, but arebrought nearer so as not to unduly increase the size of the view. Theposition of Girnigoe Castle is also indicated in the sketch. The lands of Ackergill belonged to the Cheynes, a well-known andpowerful family in the north of Scotland, from the thirteenth the year 1350, Reginald Cheyne, the head of the family, died,ending the male line and leaving two daughters, one of whom, Maiy,married John, second son of Edward Keith, the marischal, thus making. Fio. 1S5.—Ackergill Tower, from Soutli-West. their son proprietor of Ackergill as well as of Inverugie in Buchan. Acker-gill thereafter became the residence of the K eiths when in Caithness. We have no information as to when Ackergill was built, but it isundoubtedly an ancient tower, and may date from the fifteenth the following century (1538), we find from the Origines ParochialesScotia, vol. II. part ii., that the castle was granted by James v., with halfof the lands of Ackergill, to William, Earl Marischal, and Lady MargaretKeith, his wife; and nine years later the Queen Regent granted a remis-sion to George, Earl of Caithness, and others, for their treasonable takingof Alexander Keith, captain of the castle, and of John Skarlet, his ser- CASTLE VARRICII 253 — THIRD PERIOD vitor, and detaining them against their will in Girnigoe, Brawl, and otherplaces. Again, in 1556
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