Corstorphine Doocot

Built in the 1500's, this beehive-shaped doocot (dovecote) has 1060 nest boxes for pigeons, which were to provide meat (as squabs) and eggs for Corstorphine Castle, roughly 1km to the southwest, of which nothing remains.
 
The castle, built ca 1405 by Lord Provost of Edinburgh Sir Adam Forrester, was demolished ca 1797; it is suggested that only a legend that destruction of the doocot foretold the death of the lady of the estate allowed this to remain intact.