Craiginillar Castle — Its Historical Associations. 53 



not seem to be recorded, but Miss Warrender, in 

 her admirable little book, ' Walks Near Edinburgh,' 

 states that " till well into the eighteenth century 

 two old ladies, daughters of Sir John Gilmour, lived 

 there." It is stated elsewhere that at the close of 

 the eighteenth century a part of the Castle was habit- 

 able, and occupied by a farmer/ 



^ See Grose's Antiquities of Scotland, vol. i. p. 51. 



The Gii.mour Ckks'j 



