Photo of the knoll at Greenhills, East Kilbride as it is today by Graeme Cumming Local story is a Cumming built a wooden defensive tower shortly after the Conquest The mansion house or castle of Lickprivick was built like the great feudal houses, with towers, battlements, etc. The whole was reduced to ruins about 1733 and such rubbish as still remained in 1793 was completely gone by 1840. Name Book 1858; D Ure 1793; New Statistical Account 1845. The site of this building is now represented by an isolated, apparently natural knoll, with no trace of masonry or ditch. No further information was obtained regarding the date of erection of the castle, but from the above description it would appear to have been of a defensive rather than residential character, and therefore probably of pre 17th century date
Posted on: Fri, 17 Oct 2014 18:16:34 +0000
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