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 KELTY HOUSE 197 FOURTH PERIOD rising proudly above the eaves and ridges ; it has here become little else than a closet or cupboard projected out on stone corbels, and is entirely denuded of the conical roof so characteristic of the typical angle turret. FIG. 656. Kelty House. For the following notes on the history of Kelty, we are indebted to a scarce " Monograph of Dunning Parish," by the late Rev. Mr. Wilson of Dunning, and to the Rev. James Martin of Gask, who directed our attention to the "Monograph": "John Drummond of Keltic was, on 7th September 16QQ, served heir-male and of line to his paternal uncle, Master John Drummond of Keltic, in the lands and barony of Keltic, with the mill, united into a free barony, within the stewartry of Strathearn. He built the old castle of Keltic, which still stands entire, bearing on one of the lintels the initials of him and his lady, with the date of the erection, thus J. D. M. C. 1712. Kelty continued in the possession of the Drummonds until it passed into the Airlie family by the marriage of David, the eighth Earl, in 1812, to Clementina, only child and heiress of George, third son of James