A red castle at Redcastle!

hi folks welcome back to my channel Ry in the highlands hope you can hear me okay it's a little bit Breezy today now I've decided to pop down to the black aisle um and take a drive down to a small village called Milton of red Castle here I am it's a tiny little village on the road between tour roundabout and Mard on the left you'll see a sign for red castle and it's down there and this is the village tiny little village but just look just take a look at the view that these guys have got isn't that fantastic now it's called Milton of red Castle now the reason I've come down today guys is because there's a castle here and it is a red Castle it's a ruin now I've never been before so it's a bit of a trek and we'll go and see if we can find it so we'll make our way up this road here and we'll go and check out red Castle well here we are folks here it is the castle red castle look at that isn't it stunning you can just see it silhouetted against the Blue Sky there fantastic but it is a ruin you can see it's quite dilapidated now and there's a fence that's stopping us getting too close to it for obvious reasons now you can see just in the center of the shot there you've got that um uh chimney there chimney breast you can see that now that that looks almost as though it's perilously hanging on for dear life there it really does but um I'm sure there's a lot more life left in this Castle yet um I don't think there's any plans to restore it but plenty of life left in it yet so if you want to do come around to Red Castle on the black hole come and take a look let's go and investigate a little bit further see how close we can get to it so let's start walking a bit closer to it now you can see um how bad badly neglected it is such a shame isn't it that they can't do anything with it but uh I'm looking at a plaque on the side there now I think that uh that's going to tell us a date now I have read that this goes back to 1179 parts of this Castle go back to 1179 but the structure that we're looking at now in its more recent form dates back to 1641 I'm not sure if you can see it on that plaque there 1641 and it's red Sandstone you can see that that's quite common here in the highlands but you can see that the sun shining down on it now and giving it this lovely red glow isn't that fantastic it really is but now I'm just looking on the right hand side there if you look at the uh the wall there of that Tower you can see a complete crack going all the way up it so it's not very very stable and there's parts of the one on the left there cuz it's like an l-shape if you look at the plant view it is like an L-shaped but if you look at the side there that bit there you can see it coming away from this main tower in the middle of the shot but what a great building isn't it a shame that they can't do anything with [Music] it now I'm now historian folks so I don't know much about what you'd call this sort of thing but um you can see that you've got the uh I wouldn't call them turrets or anything like that but that type of thing [Music] there fantastic it really is so if you are in red Castle the village of come and take a look at this I think it's going to be here for a few more years yet we've not finished with it this yet although there's no plans to restore it what I'll do guys I'll just focus in on this here because this will show you what it would have looked like when it was inhabited there we go and it tells you a little bit about it there it di back to 1179 1179 wow but obviously this structure dates back to 1641 so there will be parts of it that are still um that old but look we'll we'll try and take a peek through the windows if we can now just as we look through there you've got stairway I don't know whether you can see that spal staircase that will take you up to the very top of this Tower yeah and then we'll look through there I can see a fireplace can you see that fireplace there folks yep that's not been used in a while so there's some history here once again red Castle here on the black aisle there we go we'll take a quick look inside yeah there's a door frame there leading through to the next room or to the hallway would have been a grand structure wouldn't it this I can see another staircase through this door there we go what a fantastic place now I don't think there's any plans to do anything with this to be honest I did check it out the website but uh don't think there's any plans to restore it or do anything with it really which is a crying shame isn't it but look at the views you've got folks now you imagine that on a lovely sunny day it's quite windy wet and cold today but uh that would have been stunning wouldn't it I'll take a walk down here folks without slipping you can see this old uh dwelling at the back here some kind of ous let's see if we can get a shot of it from this way and you've got this old out out house here and there we go you're getting a view of the back end of it [Music] now there you go you see how big it is doesn't look quite so red this side the sun's not on it that's why imagine living there folks and I can just see through through the windows there you you probably won't be able to see but through that middle window you can see the different floors and uh clearly through that window in the middle there you can see the old fireplace in one of the rooms still got the uh the mantle piece up as well yeah red Castle check it out pop on the internet check it out red Castle there in vaness it'll give you lots of information about it yeah just take a look at this folks it's fantastic isn't it you can see the actual red color now the sun's coming out and it's shiny on that and you can see the red color but uh you can see why you can't be uh restored it's just too far gone there but I think it's got a few more years left in it I don't think it's quite finished yet so uh please visit if you are this way it's well worth it and then again I'll just pan around and you can see the Fantastic views we've got probably not so good today because it is a bit wet and windy but um on a lovely clear sunny day fantastic there we go red Castle well thanks for watching this video hope you've enjoyed it from me bromm in the highlands here on the black Isle in the highlands of Scotland at the little village of red castle and there it is the red Castle hope you've enjoyed it folks if you've enjoyed it press the like button don't forget to subscribe to my channel and uh hit the bell for any notifications of any future videos so I'll see you all again very soon thanks for watching

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Published: Fri Mar 22 2024