Site Name: Palace of Inchinnan
Alternative Name(s):
Monument Type: Manor House
Council: Renfrewshire
Parish: Inchinnan
Map Sheet: NS46NE
Grid Reference: 248190, 669650
Canmore Number: 43072
Non-Statutory Register Code: R
WoSASPIN 7627
NS46NE 2 4819 6965.
(NS 4819 6965) Palace of Inchinnan (NR) (Site of)
OS 1:10,000 map (1974)
This spot, on Garnieland farm, was pointed out in 1857 by local informants as the site of the Palace of Inchinnan, though no trace of it remained. The wall immediately south of the site is chiefly built of stones taken from the ruins.
Name Book 1857
The manor house, called the Palace of Inchinnan, is said to have been built in 1506, which may be the date when the old manor house of the Stewarts (who held the lands in the 12th century) was superseded by the 'palace' of the Darnleys (Orig Paroch Scot 1851). Much of it was still standing in 1710, but it had been completely removed by the end of the 18th century.
Semple notes a stone from it, inscribed DD ISL KCL 1631 built into a gable end of a corn mill at Garnieland; this stone was in Inchinnan churchyard in 1905. McClelland also notes that some of its stones were used in a wall on Newshot Island, on Barmill farm, and to repair Inchinnan and Erskine churchs.
G Crawfurd and W Semple 1782; R McClelland 1905
The Palace of Inchinnan is one of the oldest possessions of the Lennox family. It is now ruinous, an inscription over the main entrance indicates that it was built by Matthew, first Earl of Lennox and Helen Hamilton, his wife. Within it, there was a chapel.
W Macfarlane 1907; H Scott 1950
The site of this building is situated on a rise overlooking the River Clyde. There is no vestige of a building or other aritficial feature to be seen. The area of the site is now a farm stockyard. There are some dressed grey-stones in the dykes in the immediate neighbourhood which may have come from the Palance of Inchinnan.
Visited by OS (WMJ) 12 March 1951
Entered WoSAS (SJ) 28/06/2005
A marine chart of the Clyde entitled Nieuwe Caart van de Rivier van Glasgow in 't Groot (New Map of the River of Glasgow at large scale) depicts a roofless building entitled Inchenan Old Castle. The imprint of the map is dated c1780 but attributed to Johannes Van Keulen (1654-1715).
Entered WoSAS (CS) 03/08/2010
Scott, H et al (eds.) , Fasti ecclesiae Scoticanae: the succession of ministers in the Church of Scotland from the Reformation. Edinburgh.(1915)
Macfarlane, W , Geographical collections relating to Scotland, in Mitchell, Sir A and Clark, J T (eds.). Edinburgh.(1906-8)
Ordnance Survey , Name Book (County), Original Name Books of the Ordnance Survey.(n/a)
OPS , Origines parochiales Scotiae: the antiquities ecclesiastical and territorial of the parishes of Scotland. Vol 1, Edinburgh.(1851)
McClelland, R , The church and parish of Inchinnan: a brief history. Paisley.(1905)
Crawfurd and Semple, G and W , History of the shire of Renfrew.(1782)