Talla Castle
| Talla Castle | |
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Perthshire | |
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| Location | |
| Grid reference: | NN572004 |
| Location: | 56°10’29"N, 4°18’6"W |
| History | |
| Built from 1427 | |
| Information | |
| Condition: | Ruined |
Talla Castle, also known as 'Inch Talla Castle' or 'Inchtalla Castle', was a 15th-century castle on Inchtalla upon Lake of Menteith in the south of Perthshire.
The first castle here was built by Malise Graham, Earl of Mentieth starting in 1427.[1] The current castle appears to have been built in the 18th century on the site of the earlier building.
It is recorded that an agreement was made in 1667 between the Countess of Airth and William Earl of Menteith, part of the complex tangles of debt and matrimony into which the debt-ridden earl was enwrapped:
- the haill rooms within the hall door with the second chamber nixt the hall called the schoolhouse and the north chamber nixt adjacent to the hall to be of equell use whenever occasions offers of any of the said countess hir relations or yet the said earl's (being men of quallitie) and the kitching and brewhous to be of common use for serving both parties, and the said Earl to have the littellvoult east the turnpyk on the South syd of the cloass.[2]
References
- Coventry, Martin: 'Castles of the Clans: the strongholds and seats of 750 Scottish families and clans' (2008)