Ruthven Barracks Kingussie
Ruthven Barracks near Ruthven, Invernessshire in Scotland are the smallest but best preserved of the four barracks built in 1717 after the 1715 Jacobite rising, set on a raised mound to thought to be a natural leftover of the retreat of the glaciers at the end of the last ice age. It comprises two large three-storey blocks occupying two sides of the enclosure each with two rooms per floor. The barracks and enclosing walls were loopholed for musketry, and bastion towers were built at opposite corners. The first recorded castle to be built here appeared in 1229. By 1371 it formed the centre of activity of Alexander Stewart, Lord of Badenoch, and younger son of Robert II. More popularly knows as the Wolf of Badenoch, The barracks was designed to house 120 troops, split between the two barrack blocks. Officers lived separately. The stables, standing slightly to the west of the rest of the barracks, were built in 1734 to house 28 horses for dragoons. By this time its strategic importance had been enhanced by the building of military roads from Perth, Fort Augustus and Inverness that came together here.
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