Tolquttow Castle ...

Really impressive reuins of Tolquttow Castle

We loved this old place

Look at the size of the fireplace

The floors on most of the upper rooms are gone imagine building this stone by stone

The Crest

Found the pidgion in a turret room at the top left the door open for it to fly away

This is taken faceing towards the living area , open courtyard

Had a really great look around Tolquttow Castle just reuins but you could feel the past. The lady that cares for it and the giftshop and sells tickets has lived in a stone cottage that was once stables for 6 years now, her son who is 9 says he sees a man sometimes when the are closed walking around, the lady says she here a woman singing. Neither have any fear.  She allways  opens the office with a " Good Morning Call out" and closes with "Good night" She was saying in the 1700 the Castle had been abandonde and the local folk started stripping the stone and wood from the Castle to make there homes stronger and better keep the elements out...they took quite a bit by the look it Ha! She was quite upset at what they had done, very protective of her Castle, I told her if she had lived in those times I would not have agrued with her, and bet she would have put a few in there place ...She agreed.