What is recorded here

Ballumbie Castle is a ruined sixteenth-century courtyard in Angus, built by the Lovells and already broken by 1682. John Lovell complained to the Privy Council that his own father had done him unnatural wrongs, so the stones may have grown from that much household violence as much as from mortar. The western wall still throws out square projections like an artillery fort, and the whole court leans above the Fithie Burn ravine as if listening for something dropped into it.

Scotland's National Record of the Historic Environment records Ballumbie Castle as Buckle (period Unassigned), Coin (period Unassigned). The official map says its point is accurate as follows: NGR given to the nearest 100m. The record does not by itself mean that the public may enter the place.

Ballumbie Castle is a 16th-century tower house located in Perth and Kinross, Scotland, built by the Drummond family, a prominent Scottish noble lineage. It is remembered for its historical association with the Drummonds and as an example of early defensive architecture in the Scottish Borders.

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