Dirleton Platinum Jubilee Events
Dirleton Platinum Jubilee Events June 2nd to 4th 2022 Ceremonial Tree Planting Where: The Doocot end of the green Which Day: Thursday 2nd June Time: 2.30 till 3.00 pm Activitiy: Ceremonial Tree Planting, with Lord and Lady Stewart of Dirleton in attendance. Pipers from the North Berwick Pipe Band will be playing during the ceremony. (Organised […]
Dirleton Open Gardens are coming in June
Scotland’s Gardens Scheme Dirleton Open Gardens Dirleton gardens will be open to the public on Saturday 11th and Sunday 12th June, each from 2 pm – 5.30 pm. For more information Follow this link https://dirletonvillage.org/open-gardens-at-dirleton
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The feudal barony of Congalton gave its name (or vice versa) to a very ancient family that subsisted in a part of Dirleton parish for twenty generations in the male line. The first on record, Robert de Congaltoun, witnessed a charter of Richard de Morville, Constable of Scotland, circa 1162. However, whether or not the family were […]
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The heiress of William de Vaux, Lord of Dirleton, brought the barony and estates to her husband, Sir John de Haliburton, about 1430. Their grandson, Sir Walter de Haliburton, High Treasurer of Scotland, was created a Lord of Parliament in 1447. This family failed in the male line and an heiress took Dirleton to her husband, Lord Ruthven, grandfather […]
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In the late 20th century this feudal barony was purchased by one Patrick Hannigan, from Salvador in Brazil, who subsequently bequeathed the barony to the present baron of Dirleton, Camilo Agasim-Pereira of Fulwood and Dirleton. He was later confirmed as such by disposition recorded in the Land Register of Scotland on April 22, 2002. Since the Abolition of […]
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Dirleton is notable for Dirleton Castle, a well-preserved medieval fortress, which today belongs to Historic Scotland. It is the caput of the feudal barony of Dirleton, said to be one of the oldest in Scotland (This barony did not, however, cover the entire parish). It was built in the middle of the twelfth century by a branch of the Anglo-Norman family […]
Market on the Green is Back
Put a date in your diaries for the next Market on the Green Sunday May 29th 2022 starting at 11am.
