In the latter half of the 15th century, Sir John Ross (died. c. 1474) was granted the 'Lands of Inch' with the ruins of this first castle and built Inch Castle, a three-storeyed stone fortification on the site of the old castle. In 1732 the last member of this Ross family died here. The castle was a small, 'L' shaped tower house with a stair turret in the re-entrant angle. It had been demolished by 1791. James IV made Sir John Ross the hereditary constable of the original castle.
