Milntown Castle

Sir Robert Gordon wrote: About the year 1500 the Munros of Milntown began to build the Castle of Milntown, their next neighbours, the Rosses of Balnagowan, endeavoured to stop them from building the castle, but John, Earl of Sutherland, went himself in person to defend them against Balnagowan's braggings.

[5]Alexander Mackenzie wrote: Sir George MacKenzie of Tarbet when he purchased the castle and estate of Milntown, changed the name to Tarbat, after his own title, he being then a Lord of Session under the title of Lord Tarbet.

The only remains of the old castle still extant are the door of the vault and the high terraces near the place where it stood.

In 1728 Viscount Tarbet contracted with masons to "throw down Munro's old work", clear the foundation and build a new house.

It was more than 100 feet high; is said to have required a whole week to cut it down, and to have been so heavy and difficult to remove that it had to be buried where it fell.

The door of the vault of Milntown Castle, in the grounds of the later Tarbat House, as described by Alexander Mackenzie in 1898: "The only remains of the old castle still extant are the door of the vault and the high terraces"