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MEGGINCH CASTLE 4-99 FOURTH PERIOD MEGGINCH CASTLE, PERTHSHIRE. Megginch Castle is situated in the parish of Errol, in the centre of the Carse of Cowrie, and is surrounded with finely timbered parks rising gently on all sides towards the house. The building, unfortunately, FIG. 925. Megginch Castle. View of North Front. underwent some alterations about the beginning of this century, which very much impaired its antique character, and, so far as its plan is con- cerned, changed it from a sixteenth to a nineteenth century building. But