Rait Castle
📍 Highland, Scotland
About
Rait Castle is a ruined hall-house castle dating from the late thirteenth or early fourteenth century, situated just south of Nairn near Inverness, Scotland. It is a scheduled monument.
Built around 1300 by Sir Gervase de Rait, this is one of Scotland's oldest surviving unfortified hall houses. In 1442, the Comyns invited the Mackintoshes to a feast here and planned to murder them at a signal. The plot was betrayed, and the Comyns themselves were massacred instead. The roofless ruin retains fine window openings and a remarkable survival of medieval domestic architecture.
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