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The ground floor room is entered through a small lobby which has a murder-hole in its roof.
The doorway between the turrets was protected by a murder-hole.
Alongside the entrance door is a Murder-hole through which intruders could be attacked.
The entrance passes under a murder-hole.
In Straiton parish near Craigenrae is an a site known as the Murder-hole, represented by a marshy depression.
In the novel The Grey Man written by S. R. Crockett this murder-hole is used, however its site is placed elsewhere.
A variant of a machicolation, set in the ceiling of a passage or over a gateway, was known as a meutrier or colloquially as a murder-hole.
A 'Drowning-pit', 'Drowning pool' or 'Murder-hole' was a pit or well dug for the purpose of specifically executing females under Scottish feudal laws.
The entrance at the base of the tower is protected by a small machicolation and the entrance to the ground floor chamber is protected by a murder-hole.
This was still defensive; there were portcullises on both ends, and a rather nasty murder-hole in the middle, through which all sorts of unpleasant liquids could be poured down upon a would-be invader.
Not so incidentally, the murder-hole had made a good place for a young Princess to drop petals and peas down on unsuspecting visitors, with extra points awarded for the pea that landed squarely in the middle of a fashionable hat without the wearer noticing.
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