Tour #Scotland 4K #Spring travel photograph and video Blog clip of a Scotsman wearing a Kilt and and Sporran and walking by a #Beehive #Doocot on #ancestry, #genealogy, #history visit and trip to coast by #St #Monans, #East #Neuk of #Fife tour-scotland-photographs.blogspot.com/2026/03/scot...
Tour #Scotland travel photograph and video Blog of the #Doocot near Elcho Castle on #ancestry, #genealogy, #history visit and small group trip to #Perthshire. Sructure was intended to house pigeons or doves, kept for their eggs, flesh, and dung tour-scotland-photographs.blogspot.com/2012/02/tour...
By the 20th Century, the dovecot found itself on the grounds of a sewage treatment works. It was moved to its currently location (whcih is not particularly easy to access) in 2000 to make way for a new road.
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Daldowie Dovecot (or doocot in Scotland) on Hamilton Road in the east of Glasgow. It was originally built in the 18th century in grounds of the Daldowie House Estate to house pigeons.
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I’ve come across several of these recently, but this is the first I’ve been able to get to, standing in the middle of a field. Helpfully, but rather sadly, it’s lost its roof, revealing its purpose: a doocot (a dovecote if you’re not Scottish).
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a close up colour photo of four knitted pigeons, in nests inside a dovecot or a doocot as it's called in Scotland
Day 249 of A Photo A Day for 2025
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#Geograph Now showing: Richard's close-up of weathered stonework at Newark Castle dovecote in Fife.
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Find out more about dovecotes/doocots at geograph.org.uk/p/7882719
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