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Foulis Castle, a mansion in Kiltearn parish, Rossshire, standing ¾ mile NW of, and 200 feet above, the Cromarty Firth, close to whose shore is Foulis station on the Highland railway, 2 miles SSW of Evanton or Novar, and 4¼ . NNE of Dingwall. A splendid pile, with beautiful grounds, it is the seat of Sir Charles Munro, ninth Bart. since 1634 (b.1795; suc. 1848), the chief of the clan Munro, who, after serving under Wellington, was made a Columbian general by Bolivar in 1818, and who owns 4458 acres in the shire, valued at £3781 per annum. The Foulis estate has been held by the Munroes since early in the 12th century, on the tenure of furnishing a snowball, if required, at midsummer. They fought at Bannockburn, Halidon Hill, Harlaw, Pinkie, Fontenoy, and Falkirk; and Robert Munro, the eighteenth or ' Black ' Baron, with 700 men from his own estate, served under the ' Immortal ' Gustavus, and died of a wound at Ulm in 1633. The Munroes' slogan is ' Castle Foulis in flames.'-Ord. Sur., sh. 93,1881.
(F.H. Groome, Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland (1882-4); © 2004 Gazetteer for Scotland)
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| Feature Description: | "a mansion" (ADL Feature Type: "residential sites") |
| Administrative units: | Ross Shire ScoCnty |
| Place: | Foulis |
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