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A vision of Britain through time
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Dalcross, a ruined castle in the united parish of Croy and Dalcross, NE Inverness-shire, 2 miles SE of Dalcross station on the Highland railway, this being 6¾ miles N E of Inverness. Built by the eighth Lord Lovat in 1621, it afterwards passed to the M `Intoshes, whose nineteenth chief, Lachlan, lay here in state from 9 Dec. 1703 till 18 Jan. 1704, when 2000 of the Clan Chattan followed his remains-scanty enough, one would fancy-to their last resting-place in Petty church. Here, too, the Royal troops were put in array immediately before the battle of Culloden. Dalcross stands high (362 feet above sea-level), and commands a continuous view from Mealfourvonie to the Ord of Caithness; it consists of two square, lofty, corbie-gabled blocks, joined to each other at right angles. See Croy.
(F.H. Groome, Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland (1882-4); © 2004 Gazetteer for Scotland)
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| Feature Description: | "a ruined castle" (ADL Feature Type: "historical sites") |
| Administrative units: | Inverness Shire ScoCnty |
| Place: | Dalcross |
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