Castles and forts in Aberdeenshire
The Discover Alone map has 224 castles and forts in Aberdeenshire, Scotland. Below are the 60 with the most written about them, pictures first. Every one has its own page with directions and places nearby.
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Whistleberry CastleCastle (medieval)Whistleberry Castle stands on a narrowing peninsula in Aberdeenshire, its keep reduced to a vague turf-covered line and…
WesthallCountry House (19th Century), Tower House (medieval)Westhall stands in Aberdeenshire as a medieval tower house later enlarged into a country mansion, its L-plan stone body…
Udny CastleCountry House (19th Century), Tower House (medieval)Udny Castle stands in Aberdeenshire as a 16th-century tower house with rounded angles and angle turrets, later…
Turriff CastleCastle (medieval), Motte (medieval)(possible)Possibly a motte castle in medieval Aberdeenshire, Turriff Castle was still called the Tower of Torrey in 1610 or 1612.…
Tilquhillie CastleTower House (medieval)Tilquhillie Castle is a plain but massive late 16th century tower house in Aberdeenshire, marked by a 1576 doorstone…
Terpersie CastleTower House (medieval)Telpersie Castle stands in Aberdeenshire as one of the earliest known Z-plan towers, built in 1561 with circular angle…
Tap o' Noth hill fortFortTap o' Noth hill fort stands in Aberdeenshire, Scotland, marked only as a fort on the public map. The name suggests a…
Slains CastleCastle (medieval), Country House (19th Century)New Slains Castle stands roofless on a sheer cliff above Cruden Bay, marking the place where Francis Hay, 9th Earl of…
Skene HouseCountry House (period Unassigned), Tower House (medieval)Skene House began as a 14th Century towerhouse with three vaults, later gutted and rebuilt in 1680 before becoming a…
Ravenscraig CastleTower House (medieval)Ravenscraig Castle is a ruined tower house on a rocky crag above the River Ugie, built for the Keith family and visited…
Rattray, Castle HillCastle (medieval), Kiln(s) (period Unassigned), Well (period Unassigned), Coin(s) (silver)(period Unassigned), Unidentified Flint(s) (flint)(period Unassigned), Unidentified Pottery (medieval)Castle Hill rises in Aberdeenshire, carrying a medieval castle, kilns, a well, silver coins, flint and pottery. The…
Place of TilliefoureTower House (17th Century)Place of Tilliefoure is a squat, two-storey tower house in Aberdeenshire, built around 1626 for the Leslies of…
Pitsligo CastleCastle (medieval), Formal Garden (17th Century), Tower House (medieval)Pitsligo Castle in Aberdeenshire began as a tower house built in 1424 for the Forbes family, later expanded into a…
Pitfichie CastleTower House (medieval)Pitfichie Castle is a restored medieval tower house in Aberdeenshire, probably built around 1560. Its rectangular body….jpg?width=1280)
Old Slains CastleTower House (medieval)Old Slains Castle was a 14th-century tower house granted to the Hays in 1308 when William Hay became Lord High…
New Slains CastleCastleNew Slains Castle stands roofless on a high cliff above Port Erroll, its surviving tower base dating from 1598 when the…
Muchalls CastleTower House (17th Century)Muchalls Castle is a 17th-century mansion built by the Burnets around an older Fraser tower house, preserving a vaulted…
Monymusk HouseCountry House (19th Century), Tower House (16th Century)Monymusk House stands in Aberdeenshire as a layered monument, its sixteenth-century tower roots buried beneath a…
Mither Tap fortFortMither Tap fort stands on Bennachie in Aberdeenshire, a scheduled monument saved from ordinary development because its…
Migvie CastleCastle (medieval)Migvie Castle first appeared in a charter of the Earl of Mar in 1268 as the principal stronghold of Cromar, commanding…
Midmar CastleCountry House (period Unassigned), Tower House (medieval)Midmar Castle is a medieval tower house in Aberdeenshire that became a country house when Victorian owners added…
Mains of BalfourHall House (medieval)(possible), Tower House (medieval)(possible), Well (period Unassigned)One course of massive boulder foundations still marks a 13.5m by 10.5m chamber in Aberdeenshire, large enough to have…
Maiden CastleEnclosure (period Unassigned), Fort (period Unassigned), Quarry (period Unassigned)Maiden Castle is a small fortified enclosure in Aberdeenshire, Scotland, built between AD 420 and AD 650. Its stone…
Leslie CastleGarden (period Unassigned), Linear Feature (period Unassigned), Moated Site (medieval), Pit(s) (period Unassigned), Tower House (medieval) (1661)Leslie Castle rose around 1661 as the last fortified house in Scotland, built for William Forbes of Monymusk on a…
Lauriston CastleCastle (medieval), Country House (post Medieval), Tower House (medieval)Lauriston Castle in Aberdeenshire is a layered ruin where a 14th century polygonal courtyard castle, a 17th century…
LargieCastle (medieval)Largie Castle stood in Aberdeenshire during the Post Medieval period, leaving behind dressed stones and a triangular…
Knockhall CastleTower House (medieval)Knockhall Castle stands as a medieval tower house in Aberdeenshire, anchoring a designed landscape that stretched from…
Knock CastleTower House (medieval)Knock Castle is a ruined tower house in Aberdeenshire, built circa 1600 after the earlier castle was destroyed in 1590.…
Kinnairdy CastleCastle (medieval), Motte and Bailey (medieval), Outbuilding(s) (period Unassigned)Kinnairdy Castle is a 16th-century towerhouse built on a medieval motte in Aberdeenshire, where the Innes family lived…
Kindrochit CastleTower House (medieval)Kindrochit Castle stood as a royal hunting seat for Robert II between 1371 and 1388, its massive thirty-metre hall….jpg?width=1280)
Kincardine CastleCastle (13th Century)Kincardine Castle is a 13th-century curtain-wall ruin in Aberdeenshire where kings held court and Strachans lived until…
Kildrummy CastleCastle (medieval), Chapel (medieval), Tower House (medieval)Kildrummy Castle is a ruined 13th-century stronghold in Aberdeenshire that served as the seat of the Earls of Mar. Its….jpg?width=1280)
Kemnay HouseCountry House (17th Century), Tower House (medieval)Kemnay House is a 17th-century towerhouse in Aberdeenshire, built for Sir Thomas Crombie and later owned by Thomas…
Kaim of MathersCastle (15th Century)Kaim of Mathers stands as a ruined tower on a narrow promontory in Aberdeenshire, allegedly built in the 15th century….jpg?width=1280)
Inverugie CastleCastle (medieval), Tower House (medieval)Inverugie Castle was a late 16th or early 17th Century towerhouse with two corner towers and a large courtyard. James…
Inverbervie, Hallgreen CastleTower House (medieval)Hallgreen Castle in Inverbervie is a medieval tower house, not a grand castle or a modern fantasy build. Its name and…
Inverallochy CastleCastle (medieval)Inverallochy Castle rose for Sir William Cummyn around 1504 as a wedge-shaped fortress where grass now swallows most of…
Inchdrewer CastleTower House (16th Century)Inchdrewer Castle is a ruined 16th-century tower house south-west of Banff, built around 1500 for the Currour family…
Huntly CastleCastle (medieval), Motte and Bailey (medieval)Three castles have guarded the Deveron crossing at Huntly. The oldest is a grassy motte from the 12th century, still…
House of GlenmuickCastle (medieval)House of Glenmuick occupies the abandoned castle site of Braichlie in Aberdeenshire, where Daniel Gibson built a…
Hatton CastleCastle (medieval), Tower House (medieval)Hatton Castle is a restored medieval tower house in Aberdeenshire, built in 1575 by Lawrence, 4th Lord Oliphan, and…
Harthill CastleTower House (medieval)Harthill Castle is a restored Z-plan towerhouse in Aberdeenshire, built in 1601 for the Leiths of Harthill. Its tall…
Hallforest Castle (ruin)CastleHallforest Castle (ruin) still stands as a castle marker in Aberdeenshire, though no intact hall or chamber remains for…
Gight CastleCastle (medieval)Gight Castle stands in Aberdeenshire as the broken remains of a sixteenth-century tower house, first named in a charter…
Fyvie CastleCastle (medieval), Country House (period Unassigned)Fyvie Castle is a layered medieval stronghold in Aberdeenshire where five families added towers across centuries…
Frendraught HouseCountry House (period Unassigned), Tower House (17th Century)Frendraught House stands in Aberdeenshire as a layered survivor of feudal violence, wearing a 1688 datestone above a…
Fraserburgh, Kinnaird Head LighthouseLighthouse (18th Century), Museum (20th Century), Tower House (medieval)Kinnaird Head Lighthouse stands at Fraserburgh, a medieval tower house later converted into an 18th-century lighthouse…
Fordyce CastleTower House (medieval)Fordyce Castle is a T-plan tower house in Aberdeenshire whose oldest part dates from 1592. Thomas Menzies of Durn built…
Findlater CastleCastle (medieval)Findlater Castle is a ruined medieval fortress on a rocky island off the coast of Aberdeenshire, linked to the mainland…
Fetternear House and Bishop's PalaceDitch (period Unassigned), Moat (medieval), Palace (medieval), Palace (post Medieval), Tower House (16th Century), Wall(s) (period Unassigned)Fetternear House and Bishop's Palace layer medieval moats, post-medieval palaces and a 16th-century tower house inside…
Fetteresso CastleCountry House (19th Century), Tower House (16th Century)Fetteresso Castle was the ancient seat of the Keiths, Earls Marischal of Scotland, rising as a tower house before…
Fedderate CastleCastle (medieval), Tower House (medieval)Fedderate Castle is an L-shaped tower house built by William de Craufurd after 1474, standing in a field where scallop…
Ellon CastleCastle (medieval)Ellon Castle stands as a ivy-strangled ruin where a fifteenth-century vault still holds the weight of forgotten…
Eden CastleCastle (medieval)Eden Castle in Aberdeenshire is a ruined 16th-century Z-plan stronghold belonging to the Meldrums, built around 1542…
Dunnideer CastleCastleDunnideer Castle is the earliest authenticated tower house in Scotland, built circa 1260AD inside an older vitrified…
DunnideerCastle (medieval), Fort (prehistoric), Tower House (medieval), Unidentified Pottery (medieval)Dunnideer is probably Scotland's earliest authenticated tower house, built around 1260 inside a much older vitrified…
Dundarg CastleCastle (medieval), Fort (period Unassigned)Dundarg Castle rose in Aberdeenshire when Comyns built it in the 13th century, only for Bruce to dismantle it in 1308…
Druminnor CastleCastle (medieval)Druminnor Castle in Aberdeenshire is a shattered palace house where only the staircase tower and hall block survive…
Drum CastlePottery Scatter (post Medieval), Pottery Scatter (medieval), Steps (17th Century), Tower House (medieval), Wall (period Unassigned), Water Channel (period Unassigned)Drum Castle stands as one of Scotland's oldest unaltered tower houses, built between 1280 and 1300 on a ridge granted…
Doune of InvernochtyBuilding (period Unknown), Castle (12th Century), Church (period Unknown), Kiln (period Unknown), Motte (12th Century), Observation Post (20th Century)Doune of Invernochty is the sole surviving Scottish example of a motte with Norman stonework on its summit, built in…