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Moncur Castle is a ruined tower house of sixteenth-century date located in Perthshire, Scotland. The castle comprises a rectangular stone structure typical of the period's defensive domestic architecture, built to serve as a stronghold for its proprietors during an era of considerable regional lawlessness and feudal assertion. Its remains stand as evidence of the fortified settlements that characterised the Scottish Lowlands and Perthshire during the early modern period, when such towers provided both residence and military capability for landholding families.
Moncur Castle is a scheduled monument protected by Historic Environment Scotland under reference SM5509. View the official record →
Moncur Castle is a ruined tower house of sixteenth-century date located in Perthshire, Scotland. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic Environment Scotland under reference SM5509.
Moncur Castle is a Scheduled Ancient Monument, legally protected by Historic Environment Scotland — the body responsible for designating and safeguarding heritage sites in Scotland. The official designation reference is SM5509.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Wast-Town Church,350m NNW of Westown (4 km), South Inchmichael, unenclosed settlement N of (5.5 km), Fingask Castle, standing stone 320m SSE of (5.9 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 14 strands of Moncur Castle's history, each drawn from the record and mapped to the exact spot:
Every location is different. Not every section appears for every place, only what the historical record actually holds turns up in a report.
Moncur Castle stands on Stratheden Group, bedrock that formed in the Late Devonian. The rock here is sandstone and conglomerate, interbedded.