Coulnakyle
Owners/occupiers
All those named below lived in the immediate area of Coulnakyle, or in Coulnakyle House itself
James Grant of Freuchie – early 1500s
Duncan Grant of Freuchie – 1565 – 1582 (Freuchie – now Castle Grant)
Sir John Grant of Freuchie – early 1600s
Captain Mason – 1630
Marquis of Montrose – 1644
Williamite Generals Mackay and Livingstone – 1689 ‘Baron Bailies’ – 1690s
Jacobite General Buchan – April 1690
York Buildings Company -1728 – 1737
John More (Abernethy sawmiller, builder of Dell Pipe Boring Mill) – mid 1700s
James Grant of Inveroury – 1765
Marion Grant (d.1807), sister of Sir. James Grant – 180? – 1807
Lewis Alexander Grant, 5th Earl of Seafield – 1811
Captain James MacDonald (tacksman) – 1818
Mr. Richard Winsloe and family – 1834 – 1846
Mr Grigor and Mr J Stewart (farmers) – 1852
Summer visitors – 1900s Camerons –
1900s Lady Fenwick Clennel – ?year
Uses
Permanent and holiday residence Headquarters for law, business and military leaders Sporting Lodge
Built by
Original house – Grants of Freuchie Current house – John Ada
Construction date
Original house – early 16th Century; Current house – 1765
Previously believed to have been designed by John Adam, recent research has uncovered that the plans for Grant Lodge in Elgin designed by his brother Robert Adam, had been commissioned originally for the new house at Coulnakyle!
Coulnakyle Farmhouse viewed from the Nethy Bridge Golf Course (photograph courtesy of Alastair McCook)
Location/map
Approx half a mile north west of Nethy Bridge
History
‘There is more historical interest connected with Coulnakyle than with any other place in our parish…a centre of life and interest for more than six hundred years’ (Forsyth 1900)
1226 – Identified in the Register of Moray
1539 – ‘the lands of Cannocawill’ are included in the Barony of Strathspey (Feu Disposition to James Grant of Freuchie)
There is a legend of a ghost and the phantom clattering sound of horses and armour from Cumberland’s men on their journey through to the Battle of Culloden.
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