Qualla: Cathcart Castle https://qualla.com/cathcart-castle en-us © 2026 Bendyline Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:40:16 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_res/siteimages/rsslogo.png Qualla: Cathcart Castle https://qualla.com/cathcart-castle Cathcart Castle: Introduction https://qualla.com/cathcart-castle/ What survives of Cathcart Castle is foundations, perhaps a metre high, set on a rocky bank above the White Cart Water in Linn Park. Two hundred years ago it still stood five stories tall, with vaulted basements and corner towers and a twin-towered gatehouse. In 1866 a visitor could walk into its great hall. In 1980 a Glasgow council inspector pronounced what was left dangerous, and the demolition crews pulled it down. The site is now a Scheduled Monument, which is a polite way to say that the law now protects the absence of a castle.

Read more: Cathcart Castle on Qualla

]]> Fri, 29 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/u/v/cathcart-castle-wp/gcuv-cathcart-castle-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Cathcart Castle: The Cathcarts and the Semples https://qualla.com/cathcart-castle/ The lands of Cathcart belonged to a family of the same name from the twelfth century. In the mid-fifteenth century the head of the family was raised to the peerage as Lord Cathcart, and the rectangular tower that gave the castle its dominant shape was probably built then. The Cat...

Read more: Cathcart Castle on Qualla

]]> Fri, 29 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/u/v/cathcart-castle-wp/gcuv-cathcart-castle-the-cathcarts-and-the-semples.mp3 0:06 2 full Cathcart Castle: A Story That Was Almost Certainly Not True https://qualla.com/cathcart-castle/ Local tradition long held that Mary, Queen of Scots, spent the night before the Battle of Langside in May 1568 at Cathcart Castle, and that she watched the battle the next morning from a nearby hill called the Court Knowe. The story is moving. It is also, modern historians agree,...

Read more: Cathcart Castle on Qualla

]]> Fri, 29 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/u/v/cathcart-castle-wp/gcuv-cathcart-castle-a-story-that-was-almost-certainly-not-true.mp3 0:06 3 full Cathcart Castle: Five Stories Disappearing https://qualla.com/cathcart-castle/ The Semples built a new house, Cathcart House, on a nearby site in 1740 and moved out of the castle. The castle was already old, and once empty it began to lose stone to the surrounding farmsteads, the standard fate of unloved medieval buildings. The newly created 1st Earl Cathca...

Read more: Cathcart Castle on Qualla

]]> Fri, 29 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/u/v/cathcart-castle-wp/gcuv-cathcart-castle-five-stories-disappearing.mp3 0:06 4 full Cathcart Castle: What the Plan Tells You https://qualla.com/cathcart-castle/ Archaeology and the surviving drawings let you reconstruct what stood here. The tower house was about fifteen and a half metres long, five stories including a vaulted basement, set inside a curtain wall enclosing a small courtyard, or barmkin, roughly twenty-two metres across. Th...

Read more: Cathcart Castle on Qualla

]]> Fri, 29 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/u/v/cathcart-castle-wp/gcuv-cathcart-castle-what-the-plan-tells-you.mp3 0:06 5 full