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{{Short description|Village in North Lanarkshire, Scotland}}
{{about|the village in North Lanarkshire|the village in Somerset|Castle Cary|the castle|Castle Cary Castle}}
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| official_name                    = Castlecary
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| country                          = Scotland
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| post_town                        = GLASGOW
| postcode_area                    = G
| postcode_district                = G68
| dial_code                        = 01324
| constituency_westminster         = [[Cumbernauld, Kilsyth and Kirkintilloch East (UK Parliament constituency)|Cumbernauld, Kilsyth and Kirkintilloch East]]
| civil_parish                     = [[Cumbernauld]]
| pushpin_map                      = Scotland North Lanarkshire#Scotland Falkirk
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| lieutenancy_scotland             = [[Dunbartonshire]]
| constituency_scottish_parliament = [[Cumbernauld and Kilsyth (Scottish Parliament constituency)|Cumbernauld and Kilsyth]]
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| static_image_name                = Castlecary Arches from the air (geograph 5629266).jpg
| static_image_caption             = Castlecary from the air
| static_image_alt                 = The [[M80 motorway|M80]] above the arches turns to point approximately north up the hill towards [[Stirling]]. The [[Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway|railway]] cuts across the picture left to right. The [[Forth and Clyde Canal|canal]], shown by a line of trees, crosses the picture above it with the white roofs of the CMS buildings at between them at the site of the old railway station. The [[Red Burn]] (SUDS) ponds can be seen at the bottom of the picture. Cumbernauld's [[Wardpark|Wardpark East]] can be seen at the bottom left hand corner. The bridge north of the viaduct leads to [[Allandale, Falkirk|Allandale]] and bridges further north separate [[Banknock]] at the top left from [[Haggs]].
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'''Castlecary''' ({{IPAc-en|ˌ|k|ɑː|s|ə|l|ˈ|k|ɛər|i}}) is a small historic village in [[North Lanarkshire]], [[Scotland]], directly adjacent to the border with [[Falkirk Council|Falkirk]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Canmore Search|url=https://canmore.org.uk/site/search/result?SIMPLE_KEYWORD=castlecary&SITECOUNTRY=1&per_page=53|website=Canmore|publisher=Historic Environment Scotland|accessdate=11 October 2017}}</ref> It has long been associated with [[infrastructure]], being adjacent to [[Red Burn|a bridged river]], a [[Castra|Roman fort]] and roads, [[Forth and Clyde Canal|a nationwide canal]], a Victorian railway viaduct, and [[M80 motorway|a modern motorway]]. Castlecary is close to the town of [[Cumbernauld]] but like [[Dullatur]] and [[Luggiebank]] is not officially part of the town. Around 1725, the barony of Castlecary, with a population of just seventeen families, was disjoined from the parish of [[Falkirk]], and annexed to Cumbernauld [[Quoad sacra parish|quoad sacra]].<ref>{{cite book|title=The new statistical account of Scotland|date=1845|publisher=W. Blackwood and Sons|location=Edinburgh and London|page=152|url=https://archive.org/stream/newstatisticalac08edin#page/n179/mode/1up/search/castlecary|accessdate=11 October 2017}}</ref> Castlecary is also near [[Allandale, Falkirk|Allandale]] which, though in the [[Falkirk (council area)|Falkirk council area]], was built for Castlecary fireclay workers.
==Roman Heritage==
[[File:Titulihunteriani00macdrich raw 0143.png|thumb|left|Statuette<ref>{{cite web|title=statuette of Fortuna|url=http://www.huntsearch.gla.ac.uk/cgi-bin/foxweb/huntsearch/DetailedResults.fwx?collection=all&SearchTerm=F.43&mdaCode=GLAHM&reqMethod=Link|website=Hunterian Museum & Art Gallery Collections: GLAHM F.43|publisher=University of Glasgow|accessdate=13 October 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171013120627/http://www.huntsearch.gla.ac.uk/cgi-bin/foxweb/huntsearch/DetailedResults.fwx?collection=all&SearchTerm=F.43&mdaCode=GLAHM&reqMethod=Link|archive-date=13 October 2017|url-status=dead}}</ref> of the Roman god [[Fortuna]], with [[Gubernaculum (classical)|gubernaculum]]<ref>{{cite web|title=Gubernaculum from Dictionary of Roman Coins|url=https://www.forumancientcoins.com/numiswiki/view.asp?key=Gubernaculum|website=Forum Ancient Coins|publisher=The Collaborative Numismatics Project|accessdate=12 October 2017}}</ref> (ship's rudder),<ref>{{cite web|title=Roman statuette of Fortuna|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/ahistoryoftheworld/objects/yh0V-kQIREemEljafXOf1A|website=BBC - A History of the World|accessdate=12 October 2017}}</ref> [[Rota Fortunae]] (wheel of fortune) and [[cornucopia]] (horn of plenty) found near the altar at Castlecary in 1771.<ref>{{cite book|last1=MacDonald|first1=James|title=Tituli Hunteriani: An Account of the Roman Stones in the Hunterian Museum, University of Glasgow|date=1897|publisher=T. & R. Annan & Sons|location=Glasgow|pages=90–91|url=https://archive.org/stream/titulihunterian00unkngoog#page/n108/mode/2up/search/castlecary|accessdate=11 October 2017}}</ref>]]
Castlecary, like many other settlements in the area, is steeped in the [[Ancient Rome|Roman]] history of Scotland. The route of the [[Antonine Wall]] passes through the village. Around 80 AD, a Roman camp was built at Castlecary. It may have been during governor [[Gnaeus Julius Agricola|Agricola]]'s fourth campaign season.<ref>{{cite web|title=Castlecary Roman Fort and Castlecary Tower|url=http://www.castlesfortsbattles.co.uk/central_west_scotland/castlecary.html#Castlecary_Tower|website=CastlesFortsBattles|accessdate=14 October 2017|archive-date=14 October 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171014233647/http://www.castlesfortsbattles.co.uk/central_west_scotland/castlecary.html#Castlecary_Tower|url-status=dead}}</ref> Most Roman forts along the wall held garrisons of around 500 men.<ref>{{cite web|title=Soldier|url=http://www.antoninewall.org/about-wall/living-wall/soldier|website=Frontiers of the Roman Empire|accessdate=21 October 2017}}</ref> Larger forts like Castlecary and [[Blatobulgium|Birrens]] had a nominal cohort of 1000 men<ref>{{cite book|last1=Miller|first1=S. N.|title=The Roman Occupation Of South Western Scotland Being Reports Of Excavations And Surveys Carried Out Under The Auspices Of The Glasgow Archaeological Society By John Clarke, J. M. Davidson, Anne S. Robertson, J. K. St. Joseph,  Edited For The Society With An Historical Survey By S. N. Miller|date=1952|publisher=Robert Maclehose & Company Limited|location=Glasgow|url=https://archive.org/stream/in.ernet.dli.2015.227248/2015.227248.The-Roman#page/n243/mode/2up/search/castlecary|accessdate=11 October 2017}}</ref> but probably sheltered women and children as well although the troops were not allowed to marry.<ref>{{cite web|title=Roman child's leather shoe|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/ahistoryoftheworld/objects/4s9CJ-9VSTCcpFR389U8MA|website=A History of the World|publisher=BBC|accessdate=17 October 2017}}</ref> There is likely too to have been large communities of civilians around the site.<ref>{{cite web|last1=Rohl|first1=Darrell, Jesse|title=More than a Roman Monument: A Place-centred Approach to the Long-term History and Archaeology of the Antonine Wall|url=http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/9458/1/DarrellRohl_PhDThesis_2014.pdf?DDD6+#page=245|website=Durham Theses|publisher=Durham University. Available at Durham E-Theses Online ref: 9458|accessdate=14 October 2017}}</ref> In 1769, workmen seeking materials for the Forth and Clyde Canal, found 8 apartments along with the remains of an L-shaped, [[hypocaust]]ed, bathhouse in the south-east section of the fort.<ref>{{cite web|last1=Rohl|first1=Darrell, Jesse|title=More than a Roman Monument: A Place-centred Approach to the Long-term History and Archaeology of the Antonine Wall|url=http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/9458/1/DarrellRohl_PhDThesis_2014.pdf?DDD6+#page=177|website=Durham Theses|publisher=Durham University. Available at Durham E-Theses Online ref: 9458|accessdate=14 October 2017}}</ref> Inside the walls other objects such as human bones, pottery shards and boars' tusks were discovered.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Stuart|first1=Robert|title=Caledonia romana: a descriptive account of the Roman antiquities of Scotland|date=1845|publisher=Bell and Bradfute|location=Edinburgh|pages=338–347|url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=hvd.32044081022220;view=1up;seq=374|accessdate=11 October 2017}}</ref> Historically, the site was not handled with much respect to archaeology as even gunpowder was used at the fort to improve land for agriculture.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Macdonald|first1=Sir George|title=The Roman wall in Scotland, by Sir George Macdonald|date=1934|publisher=The Clarendon press|location=Oxford|pages=241–252|edition=2d ed., rev., enl., and in great part rewritten|url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.b3760345;view=2up;seq=350;size=125|accessdate=11 October 2017}}</ref> It was, however, excavated sympathetically in 1902.
[[File:Romanwallinscotl00macduoft raw 0421Castlecary2255.png|thumb|left|RIB 2155.<ref>{{cite web|title=RIB 2155. Honorific Building Inscription of the First Cohort of Tungrians|url=https://romaninscriptionsofbritain.org/inscriptions/2155|accessdate=5 May 2018}}</ref> Auxiliary tablet of the First Cohort of [[Tungri]]ans. George MacDonald calls it no. 30 in the 2nd edition of his book ''The Roman Wall in Scotland''.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Macdonald|first1=Sir George|title=The Roman wall in Scotland, by Sir George Macdonald|date=1934|publisher=The Clarendon press|location=Oxford|pages=412–414|edition=2d ed., rev., enl., and in great part rewritten|url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.b3760345;view=1up;seq=65;size=125|accessdate=11 October 2017}}</ref>]]
[[File:Romanwallinscotl00macduoft raw 0489.png|thumb|left|[[Fibula (brooch)|fibulae]] from Castlecary]]
Artefacts, found at Castlecary,<ref>{{cite web|title=Castlecary|url=http://www.antoninewall.org/visiting-the-wall/things-to-see-and-do/site-by-site/castlecary|website=The Antonine Wall|accessdate=10 October 2017}}</ref> such as the altar to the Roman god [[Fortuna]] can now be viewed at the [[Hunterian Museum]] in Glasgow.<ref>{{cite web|title=The Antonine Wall: Rome's Final Frontier|url=https://www.gla.ac.uk/hunterian/collections/permanentdisplays/theantoninewall/|website=The Hunterian|publisher=University of Glasgow|accessdate=10 October 2017}}</ref> Eleven inscribed stoneworks have been recovered from the Castlecary fort. Nine of these were altars; six bear the names of Roman military units.<ref>{{cite web|title=Castlecary|url=http://roman-britain.co.uk/places/castlecary.htm#rib2146|website=Roman Britain|accessdate=28 October 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180604200812/http://roman-britain.co.uk/places/castlecary.htm#rib2146|archive-date=4 June 2018|url-status=dead}}</ref> A sandstone statuette of Fortuna,<ref>{{cite web|title=Fortuna|url=http://www.thaliatook.com/OGOD/fortuna.php|website=The Magical Art of Thalia Took|accessdate=12 October 2017}}</ref> the Roman god of luck, fate, fortune<ref>{{cite web|title=Fortuna & The Wheel of Fortune|url=https://sites.dartmouth.edu/exploratoryshakespeare/2015/07/14/fortuna-the-wheel-of-fortune/|website=Exploratory Shakespeare|accessdate=12 October 2017}}</ref> (and even, in [[Fortuna Redux]],<ref>{{cite web|title=Fortuna Redux|url=http://www.thaliatook.com/OGOD/redux.php|website=The Obscure Goddess Online Directory|accessdate=12 October 2017}}</ref> safe-return) was found at Castlecary in 1771. Fortuna is depicted on around 1000<ref>{{cite web|title=Fortuna Coins|url=http://numismatics.org/ocre/results?q=deity_facet%3A%22Fortuna%22&start=0|website=Online Coins of the Roman Empire (OCRE)|publisher=American Numismatic Society and the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World at New York University|accessdate=12 October 2017}}</ref> different Roman coins and looking at them leaves little doubt that it's Fortuna and not [[Mercury (mythology)|Mercury]] that is depicted.<ref>{{cite web|title=Late Roman Coins with Fortuna, from the period of the first tetrarchy at the end of the third century AD.|url=http://augustuscoins.com/ed/Fortuna/|website=Ancient Roman and Greek Coins: Educational pages|accessdate=12 October 2017}}</ref> A Roman altar to Mercury by the [[Legio VI Victrix|Sixth Legion]] was found at Castlecary.<ref>{{cite web|title=altar to Mercury|url=http://nms.scran.ac.uk/database/record.php?usi=000-100-037-684-C&scache=1j29imtkek&searchdb=scran|website=National Museums Scotland|accessdate=28 October 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Castlecary Fort|url=http://www.antoninewall.org/system/files/documents/Castlecary-%20Fort.pdf|website=Frontiers of the Roman Empire|accessdate=14 October 2017}}</ref> George MacDonald calls it no. 36 in the 2nd edition of his book ''The Roman Wall in Scotland''.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Macdonald|first1=Sir George|title=The Roman wall in Scotland, by Sir George Macdonald|date=1934|publisher=The Clarendon press|location=Oxford|pages=420–421|edition=2d ed., rev., enl., and in great part rewritten|url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.b3760345;view=2up;seq=590;size=175|accessdate=11 October 2017}}</ref> It's a small altar; Macdonald says it's only about 20 by 10 inches. He regarded it as notable for showing that Italians and Britons were comrades in the Roman army. An altar to an unknown goddess was found while digging the canal. It is hard to read anything more than four letters.
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|image1=Titulihunteriani00macdrich raw 0141.png|width1=178|caption1=RIB 2146.<ref>{{cite web|title=RIB 2146. Altar dedicated to Fortuna|url=https://romaninscriptionsofbritain.org/inscriptions/2146|website=Roman Inscriptions of Britain|accessdate=26 May 2018}}</ref> Altar<ref>{{cite web|title=altar to Fortuna by Second and Sixth Legions|url=http://www.huntsearch.gla.ac.uk/cgi-bin/foxweb/huntsearch/DetailedResults.fwx?collection=all&SearchTerm=F.21&mdaCode=GLAHM&reqMethod=Link|website=Hunterian Museum & Art Gallery Collections: GLAHM F.21|publisher=University of Glasgow|accessdate=13 October 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171013120625/http://www.huntsearch.gla.ac.uk/cgi-bin/foxweb/huntsearch/DetailedResults.fwx?collection=all&SearchTerm=F.21&mdaCode=GLAHM&reqMethod=Link|archive-date=13 October 2017|url-status=dead}}</ref> dedicated to Fortuna by the [[Legio II Augusta|Second]] and [[Legio VI Victrix|Sixth]] Legions found by workmen on the Forth and Clyde Canal at Castlecary in 1769.<ref>{{cite book|last1=MacDonald|first1=James|title=Tituli Hunteriani: An Account of the Roman Stones in the Hunterian Museum, University of Glasgow|date=1897|publisher=T. & R. Annan & Sons|location=Glasgow|pages=73–75|url=https://archive.org/stream/titulihunterian00unkngoog#page/n92/mode/2up/search/castlecary|accessdate=11 October 2017}}</ref>
|image2=Romanwallinscotl00macduoft raw 0457 RIB2148.png|width2=114|caption2=RIB 2148.<ref>{{cite web|title=RIB 2148. Altar dedicated to Mercury|url=https://romaninscriptionsofbritain.org/inscriptions/2148|website=Roman Inscriptions of Britain|accessdate=26 May 2018}}</ref> Altar dedicated to Mercury by the Sixth Legion. Found between the fort and the [[Red Burn]].
|image3=Romanwallinscotl00macduoft raw 0457 RIB2150.png|width3=190|caption3=RIB 2150.<ref>{{cite web|title=RIB 2150. Altar dedicated to a goddess|url=https://romaninscriptionsofbritain.org/inscriptions/2150|website=Roman Inscriptions of Britain|accessdate=26 May 2018}}</ref> Altar dedicated to a goddess.
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A few coins and the remains of a [[Roman tuba]] were also recovered and well as a pair of small shoes suggesting there were children onsite.<ref>{{cite web|title=Castlecary Antonine Wall Fort|url=http://roman-britain.co.uk/places/castlecary.htm|website=Roman Britain|accessdate=10 October 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180604200812/http://roman-britain.co.uk/places/castlecary.htm|archive-date=4 June 2018|url-status=dead}}</ref> The National Scottish Museums also list a [[Cornu (horn)|cornu mouthpiece]], a glass cup fragment, an iron claw hammer, a wooden spatula and two sculpted stones. One stone identifies the 'sixth cohort, the century of Antonius Aratus'.<ref>{{cite web|title=Castlecary finds|url=http://nms.scran.ac.uk/database/results.php?QUICKSEARCH=1&search_term=castlecary|website=National Museums Scotland|accessdate=28 October 2017}}</ref> In the 21st century a treasure trove of a lion's head was discovered at Castlecary.<ref>{{cite web|title=Bronze Lion Head Mount, Castlecary|url=https://vimeo.com/173610380|accessdate=21 October 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=In pictures: Scottish treasure trove|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-highlands-islands-18645517|accessdate=12 October 2017|agency=BBC|date=29 June 2012|ref=Image 7 of 7}}</ref> The site in relation to the [[Red Burn]], the [[Forth and Clyde Canal]], the road, and the former railway station can be seen on older maps.<ref>{{cite web|title=OS 25 inch Map 1892-1949|url=http://maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/#zoom=17&lat=55.9822&lon=-3.9464&layers=168&b=1|website=zoomable map with Bing transparency overlay|publisher=National Library of Scotland|accessdate=10 October 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=OS 6 inch Map 1892-1960|url=http://maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/#zoom=16&lat=55.9835&lon=-3.9432&layers=6&b=1|website=zoomable map with Bing transparency overlay|publisher=National Library of Scotland|accessdate=10 October 2017}}</ref> The canal crosses the Red Burn on an aqueduct,<ref>{{cite web|title=Red Burn Aqueduct|url=https://tools.wmflabs.org/wiwosm/osm-on-ol/commons-on-osm.php?zoom=16&lat=055.983599&lon=-003.948636|website=OpenStreetMap|accessdate=10 August 2016}}</ref> close to the Bonny Water just outside Castlecary.<ref>http://www.scotlandsplaces.gov.uk/record/nls/24816/ordnance-survey-six-inch-mile-dunbartonshire-sheet-n-xxixse/OS6Inch2nd?inline=true#map-wrapper Zoom on right hand map for canal crossings</ref> Just west of Castlecary, at Garnhall,<ref>{{cite web|title=OS 25 inch Map 1892-1949|url=http://maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/#zoom=17&lat=55.9796&lon=-3.9549&layers=168&b=1|website=zoomable map with Bing transparency overlay|publisher=National Library of Scotland|accessdate=10 October 2017}}</ref> two Roman temporary camps were discovered. A round enclosure and a possible watchtower were also found although these are not visible today.<ref>{{cite web|title=Garnhall|url=http://www.antoninewall.org/visiting-the-wall/things-to-see-and-do/site-by-site/garnhall|website=Frontiers of the Roman Empire|accessdate=21 October 2017}}</ref> At Tollpark,<ref>{{cite web|title=OS 25 inch Map 1892-1949|url=http://maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/#zoom=17&lat=55.9764&lon=-3.9725&layers=168&b=1|website=zoomable map with Bing transparency overlay|publisher=National Library of Scotland|accessdate=10 October 2017}}</ref> remains one of the longest continuous stretches of the Wall. It is found between the forts at Castlecary and [[Westerwood]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Tollpark|url=http://www.antoninewall.org/visiting-the-wall/things-to-see-and-do/site-by-site/tollpark|website=Frontiers of the Roman Empire|accessdate=21 October 2017}}</ref> A [[kissing gate]] behind the hotel provides access to this section of the wall.<ref>{{cite web|title=Castlecary to Westerwood|url=http://www.antoninewall.co.uk/castlecary_roman_fort_westerwood.html|website=The Antonine Wall|accessdate=21 October 2017}}</ref>
[[File:Antonine.Wall.Roman.forts.jpg|thumb|upright=4|center|alt=map of Antonine wall with forts|Forts and ''Fortlets'' associated with the [[Antonine Wall]] from west to east: [[Bishopton, Renfrewshire|Bishopton]], [[Old Kilpatrick]], [[Duntocher]], ''[[Cleddans]]'', [[Castlehill Fort|Castlehill]], [[Bearsden]], ''[[Summerston]]'', [[Balmuildy]], ''[[Wilderness Plantation]]'', [[Cadder]], ''[[Glasgow Bridge, Kirkintilloch|Glasgow Bridge]]'', [[Kirkintilloch]], [[Auchendavy]], [[Bar Hill Fort|Bar Hill]], [[Croy Hill]], [[Westerwood]], Castlecary, ''[[Seabegs Wood|Seabegs]]'', [[Rough Castle]], [[Camelon]], ''[[Watling Lodge]]'', [[Falkirk]], [[Mumrills]], [[Inveravon]], ''[[Kinneil House|Kinneil]]'', [[Carriden House|Carriden]]]]
Some antiquarians posited that Castlecary was [[Ptolemy|Ptolemy's]] Coria Damniorum although such assertions lack evidence.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Carlisle|first1=Nicholas|title=A topographical dictionary of Scotland, and of the islands in the British seas. Compiled from the most authentic documents, and arranged in alphabetical order. Being a continuation of the topography of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. By Nicholas Carlisle.|date=1813|publisher=Printed for G. and W. Nicol|location=London|url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=umn.31951002370927e;view=1up;seq=318|accessdate=14 October 2017}}</ref> The [[Damnonii]] or Damnii themselves are only mentioned by Ptolemy.<ref>{{cite web|title=Castlecary|url=https://doorstephistory.wordpress.com/notes/castlecary/|website=Doorstep history: Local history and archaeology in Lanarkshire and beyond|accessdate=14 October 2017}}</ref>
==Fireclay Brickworks==
There were two fireclay brickworks in Castlecary: Castlecary Fireclay Company Limited, known as Weir's Castlecary, established during the late 19th century by Alexander Weir, which closed in 1968;<ref>{{cite web|title=Castlecary Fireclay Company Limited|url=https://www.scottishbrickhistory.co.uk/castlecary-fireclay-company-limited/|website=Scottish Brick History|accessdate=11 October 2017}}</ref> and Stein's Castlecary Works established by John G Stein which continued until the 1980s.<ref>{{cite web|title=The life of John G Stein|url=https://www.scottishbrickhistory.co.uk/the-life-of-john-g-stein/|website=Scottish Brick History|accessdate=11 October 2017}}</ref> The two companies were over the road from each other. Stein's brickworks in [[Allandale, Falkirk|Allandale]] opened in 1899<ref>{{cite news|last1=Barber|first1=Stuart|title=The industry Falkirk district was built on|url=http://www.falkirkherald.co.uk/news/the-industry-falkirk-district-was-built-on-1-3839275|accessdate=11 October 2017|publisher=The Falkirk Herald|date=29 July 2015}}</ref> and provided local employment for many years. The site is now derelict and awaiting redevelopment. Allandale village was built for the Castlecary brickworkers and John Stein's business grew to be the 2nd largest fireclay brick manufacturer in the world.<ref>{{cite news|last1=Scott|first1=Ian|title=Stein’s – a success story built with bricks|url=http://www.falkirkherald.co.uk/lifestyle/nostalgia/stein-s-a-success-story-built-with-bricks-1-4082240|accessdate=11 October 2017|publisher=The Falkirk Herald|date=26 March 2016}}</ref> Some early footage of the 1932 Castlecary gala day survives shot by the Stein family.<ref>{{cite web|title=Castlecary|url=http://movingimage.nls.uk/search?search_term=castlecary&search_mode=quick|website=Moving Image Archive|accessdate=11 October 2017}}</ref> Other 19th century employers include a quarry and a sawmill.<ref>{{cite book|title=The new statistical account of Scotland|date=1845|publisher=W. Blackwood and Sons|location=Edinburgh and London|page=19|url=https://archive.org/stream/newstatisticalac08edin#page/n302/mode/1up/search/castlecary|accessdate=11 October 2017}}</ref>
==Railway Station and Memorial Garden==
[[File:Castlecary Memorial Garden - geograph.org.uk - 1617300.jpg|left|thumb|Castlecary Memorial Garden - built to commemorate two local children who died when, in 1958, a mineshaft suddenly opened up in their swing park.<ref>{{cite news|last1=Grant|first1=Clare|title=Remembering the railway casualties|url=http://www.cumbernauld-news.co.uk/news/remembering-the-railway-casualties-1-355484|accessdate=12 October 2017|agency=Cumbernauld News|date=23 December 2003}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Report with advice on Lottery Funding|url=https://mars.northlanarkshire.gov.uk/egenda/images/att57432.pdf|website=North Lanarkshire Council|accessdate=12 October 2017}}</ref>]]
[[File:Castlecary Memorial Garden, Castlecary (geograph 1903542).jpg|thumb|right|Plaques, Castlecary Train Memorial, Castlecary Memorial Garden]]
One suggested use of the former brickworks has been the construction of a new "park and ride" railway station, which was to be called [[Allandale railway station (Scotland)|Allandale]]. It had been previously suggested that the station be called Castlecary, but representations were made to the scheme's sponsors not to call it this given the existence of a [[Castle Cary railway station|Castle Cary station]] in [[Somerset]] and the potential for confusion between the two.
Previously a [[Castlecary railway station]] existed but it closed in 1967.<ref>{{cite web|title=Castlecary|url=http://www.scottish-places.info/towns/townfirst308.html|website=The Gazetteer for Scotland|accessdate=11 October 2017}}</ref> It was the site of a major accident, the [[Castlecary (East Dunbartonshire) rail accident|Castlecary Rail Disaster]] on 10 December 1937, when two trains collided with one another. The accident cost the lives of 35 people, with a further 179 injured.<ref>{{cite news|title=Village remembers its blackest day after more than 70 years|url=http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/12370529.Village_remembers_its_blackest_day_after_more_than_70_years/|accessdate=11 October 2017|publisher=The Herald|date=1 September 2008}}</ref> A memorial was installed in the memorial garden in the village on 30 August 2008.<ref>{{cite news|title=Village memorial to rail disaster|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/tayside_and_central/7586523.stm|accessdate=12 October 2017|agency=BBC|date=29 August 2008}}</ref> The Castlecary Rail Crash of 9 September 1968 is also commemorated there.
==Today's village==
[[File:Cumbernauld from the air (geograph 5629257).jpg|thumb|left|upright=2.0|Castlecary from the air. The [[Forth and Clyde Canal|canal]] crosses the picture bottom left to top right (west to east). The [[Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway|railway]] is just below it with the white roof of the CMS buildings at Castlecary between them. The [[Red Burn]] (SUDS) ponds can be seen south of the Arches which are just visible. Cumbernauld's [[Wardpark]] can be seen being divided by the [[M80 motorway|M80]] as it heads north towards [[Stirling]]. At the bottom left the edge of [[Westerwood]] can be seen below [[Cumbernauld Airport]]. At the bottom, the small white T-shaped building is the Old Inns petrol station which separates Castlecary Road from the M80. The curve of Forest Road round [[Whitelees]] in [[Cumbernauld]] and Whitelees Roundabout which divides it from [[Abronhill]] are at the bottom right. North of Castlecary, [[Banknock]] can be seen on the left extending towards [[Longcroft, Falkirk|Longcroft]] and [[Dennyloanhead]] with [[Denny, Falkirk|Denny]] and [[Bonnybridge]] at the top right.]]
There is little beyond housing in the village today. The Castlecary House Hotel<ref>{{cite web|title=Castlecary House Hotel|url=http://castlecaryhotel.com/|accessdate=11 October 2017}}</ref> is a well-known business in the village and was up for sale in 2016.<ref>{{cite news|title=Castlecary House Hotel is for sale|url=http://www.cumbernauld-news.co.uk/news/business/castlecary-house-hotel-is-for-sale-1-4211573|accessdate=11 October 2017|publisher=Cumbernauld News|date=24 August 2016}}</ref> The hotel is in a central location, sited to the west of the [[M80 motorway]] and south of the canal. The fort and the castle are east of the M80 which bisects the village from much of its history. A major employer in the area is CMS Windows which is based in Castlecary and employs over 250 people nationally.<ref>{{cite news|title=CMS Window Systems secures LDC investment to support growth plans|url=http://www.scottishfinancialnews.com/8919/cms-window-systems-secures-ldc-investment-to-support-growth-plans/|accessdate=12 October 2017|publisher=Scottish Financial News|date=3 June 2016}}</ref>
[[File:The Castlecary Hotel - geograph.org.uk - 1617311.jpg|thumb|The Castlecary House Hotel]]
Castlecary commonly lends its name to a [[viaduct]] which crosses the M80, although its official name is the "Castlecary, Red Burn, Railway Viaduct"  or Red Burn Viaduct.<ref>{{cite web|title=Castlecary, Red Burn, Railway Viaduct|url=http://www.britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/200342990-castlecary-red-burn-railway-viaduct-falkirk#.Wd5jZHBrw1I|website=British Listed Buildings|accessdate=11 October 2017}}</ref> The landmark, known by many as the "Castlecary Arches", was built for the Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway, which opened in 1842.<ref>{{cite news|title=Nostalgia: Hidden cost of the Castlecary Arches|url=http://www.cumbernauld-news.co.uk/news/environment/nostalgia-hidden-cost-of-the-castlecary-arches-1-4501891|accessdate=11 October 2017|publisher=Cumbernauld News|date=12 July 2017}}</ref> Before the A80 opened, the road went under a single arch.<ref>{{cite news|title=From the archives|url=http://www.cumbernauld-news.co.uk/news/from-the-archives-1-1892210|accessdate=11 October 2017|publisher=Cumbernauld News|date=8 October 2011}}</ref>
[[File:Castlecary Viaduct - geograph.org.uk - 1742750.jpg|thumb|left|Castlecary Arches]]
Along with the adjacent [[Forth and Clyde Canal]] and the [[Bonny Water]], the viaduct acts as a physical representation of Castlecary's status as an [[isogloss]], as it is around here that there is a distinct change from the [[Glasgow patter|West Central Scots]] accent spoken around Cumbernauld (many of the town's residents having strong links to [[Glasgow]]) to the East [[Central Scots]] spoken in nearby [[Bonnybridge]] and [[Denny, Falkirk|Denny]]. Around {{convert|15|miles}} to the south-east, [[Harthill, Scotland|Harthill]] is another location alongside a motorway perceived to denote a shift between dialects as well as [[Subdivisions of Scotland|local authorities]].
[[File:Castlecary Castle.jpg|thumb|Castlecary Castle]]
Castlecary Primary School shut sometime between 1973<ref>{{cite news|title=From the archives|url=http://www.cumbernauld-news.co.uk/lifestyle/from-the-archives-1-3186897|accessdate=11 October 2017|publisher=Cumbernauld News|date=16 November 2013}}</ref> and 1976.<ref>{{cite news|title=From the archives|url=http://www.cumbernauld-news.co.uk/news/from-the-archives-1-1730784|publisher=Cumbernauld News|date=16 July 2011}}</ref> Extracts from a 2nd world war log book from the school survive and are available.<ref>{{cite web|title=Extracts from Castlecary Primary School log book, 1939 -1945|url=http://www.falkirkcommunitytrust.org/heritage/learning/resources-for-schools/docs/schools/second-world-war/Castlecary%20Primary%20School%20log%20book.pdf|website=Falkirk Community Trust|accessdate=11 October 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171012095128/http://www.falkirkcommunitytrust.org/heritage/learning/resources-for-schools/docs/schools/second-world-war/Castlecary%20Primary%20School%20log%20book.pdf|archive-date=12 October 2017|url-status=dead}}</ref> A new play park for children opened in June 2018.<ref>{{cite news |title=New play area for Castlecary |url=https://www.cumbernauld-news.co.uk/news/environment/new-play-area-for-castlecary-1-4750551 |accessdate=7 June 2018 |agency=Cumbernauld News |date=6 June 2018}}</ref>
[[Castle Cary Castle]], on the opposite side of the M80, is where Lizzie Baillie, in her love, is supposed to have jumped from a window.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Baird|first1=Rev. Hugh|title=Castlecary and the great Roman wall: their history, remains, and traditions ...|date=1864|publisher=Charles Jeffrey|location=Falkirk|pages=68–69|url=https://archive.org/stream/castlecaryandgr01bairgoog#page/n72/mode/2up|accessdate=10 October 2017}}</ref>
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