The remains of the old castle Peyroles stand on a hill overlooking a creek called the Liort. A truncated tower, some ruins and arches supporting the adjoining devotional chapel are the only remains of this majestic building. The stream that skirts the promontory served ditches.
We know that "peyre" in Occitan means: stone; the significance of Peyrolles is "rocky place forbidden" (fortified).
Around the year 900 to 1000 existed castles Cadoule and Peyrolles where lived at that time, Amon lord.
The ruins that remain are a part of the Saint Vincent and the few remaining stone walls make it difficult to imagine the power of the large manor of Peyrolles.
A little before 1000, a cadet of Peyrolles, Ischafrède married Rixendis, Meudou heir, and the couple donated their property to the monastery Saint Martial de Limoges. Towards 1025, the nephews of Ischafrède challenged this legacy and claimed inheritance.
In the eleventh century the castle passed to the family of Castelmary. Count Raymond VII of Toulouse confiscated the lordship which was restored in 1266 by his successor Alphonse de Poitiers.
In the second half of the fourteenth century the barony of Castelmary passes by marriage to the family Del Vernh then, a century later, for the same reasons, the family De Saunhac then that of Morlhon Sanvensa until 1458 with the land of Blauzac and Peyrolles.
In the fourteenth century Peyrolles had lost its importance and included a farmhouse twenty (houses). It is believed that the site of Peyrolles has been used as a defensive place from early history, long before the Middle Ages.
Moreover, the land of Tournemire (located at the port of La Besse) was only a memory and the castle of the same name also.
This is around the most ancient castles that were built the first true medieval villages.
