« Reply #8 on: Sunday 23 September 07 08:53 BST (UK) »
Yes been to Inverlochy Castle quite a number of times, there should be plenty of information about it and pictures on the web - try CANMORE. I think I put one or two of mine on the Wikipedia page about it. There was a guided walk around it last year during Highland Archaeology Fortnight, from what I remember it is quite rare because the whole castle is from one period and it did not any major alterations after that (apart from castellations being put on one wall so it looked "right" when Queen Victoria passed by on the railway!
By the way, you have to be careful when looking up Inverlochy Castle on the web because there is also Inverlochy Castle Hotel which is just outside Fort William, it is a much later building that was built in the 19th Century.
I don't think there is much now at Tomacharich, certainly not visible from the road, probably need to get away from the road when it sounds as if there are a few ruins.
Tomacharich
Type of Site: Head Dyke, School, Township
NMRS Number: NN17NW 28
Map reference: NN 140 783
Parish: Kilmonivaig
Council: Highland
Former District: Lochaber
Former Region: Highland
Archaeology Notes
NN17NW 28 centred on 140 783
A township, comprising nineteen roofed buildings, one of which is annotated as a school, one unroofed building, six enclosures and two lengths of head-dyke is depicted on the 1st edition of the OS 6-inch map (Inverness-shire 1874, sheet cxl). Two roofed, five unroofed buildings and three enclosures are shown on the current edition of the OS 1:10000 map (1975).
Information from RCAHMS (AKK) 17 September 1996.
I have been in the museum a few times in the past.
Martin
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