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Orrock Castle

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View Larger MapDescription of institution: "The name is territorial and comes from the lands of Orrock" belonging to a clan of the same name: "
Orrock [NT 220881] was held by the family from the middle of the thirteenth century for some 400 years. They had a castle or mansion, from which a date stone of 1704 survives, but the lands were sold in the 1750s to the Beatons and the Orrock family moved to Aberdeenshire" (M. Coventry, Castles of the Clans. Musselburgh, 2008, p. 470.)

There was a limestone quarry nearby in the seventeenth-century (according to Sibbald), which seems to still be operational.
Images linked to this location: People associated with this location: Orrock (-fl. c. 1697) - Owned
 Print Sources linked to this location: - A Mineralogical Tour of the Kingdom of Fife.