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Camilla

Castle (Medieval)

Site Name Camilla

Classification Castle (Medieval)

Alternative Name(s) Hallyards

Canmore ID 52987

Site Number NT29SW 5

NGR NT 2115 9137

Datum OSGB36 - NGR

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Administrative Areas

  • Council Fife
  • Parish Auchtertool
  • Former Region Fife
  • Former District Kirkcaldy
  • Former County Fife

Archaeology Notes

NT29SW 5 2115 9136.

(NT 2116 9136) Ruins of Camilla formerly Hallyards (NR)

OS 6"map, (1920)

Hallyards Castle - Some fragments of walling and a few mounds rising within a ploughed field represent all that remains of Hallyards Castle, which has evidently been an extensive house of the 16th or 17th century, built round a courtyard measuring 123 by 87 feet over all. A somewhat less ruinous structure at the north east corner is possibly of later date. Part of a gable, still standing at the south east corner, indicates that here the building has been a vaulted ground floor and at least two upper floors, with a lean-to structure or'to fall.'

RCAHMS 1933.

After the death of Philip Skene in 1788, the name of Hallyards was changed to Camilla.

A H Millar 1895.

The ruins of Camilla, formerly Hallyards, are as described by RCAHMS; they are now very fragmentary and overgrown.

Visited by OS (W D J) 11 March 1959.

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Field Visit (26 May 1925)

Hallyards Castle.

Some fragments of walling and a few mounds rising within a ploughed field represent all that remains of Hallyards Castle, which has evidently been an extensive house of the 16th or 17th century, built round a courtyard measuring 123 by 87 feet over all. A somewhat less ruinous structure at the north-east corner is possibly of later date. Part of a gable, still standing at the south-east corner, indicates that here the building has been a vaulted ground-floor and at least two upper floors, with a lean-to structure or "to-fall."

HISTORICAL NOTE. ‘1653, Jan.-The old Laird of Halyeards in Fyfe (surnamed Skine), depairted out of this life att Halyeards, and was interred ... att Achtertoole church’ (1).

RCAHMS 1933, visited 26 May 1925.

(1) The Diary of Mr. John Lamont of Newton, 1649-71 (Maitland Club), p. 52.

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