Castles and forts in Moray
The Discover Alone map has 67 castles and forts in Moray, 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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York TowerFortYork Tower is a fort in Moray, Scotland. Perhaps soldiers watched the changing sky from that height, waiting for danger…
Tor CastleCastle (medieval)Tor Castle is a ruined medieval castle in Lochaber, Scotland, where Clan Cameron built a massive tower house after…
Rothes CastleCastle (medieval), Motte (medieval)(possible)Rothes Castle rose on a hill above Moray around 1200 when Peter de Pollok built it to watch traffic along Strathspey.…
Portknockie, Green CastlePromontory Fort (iron Age)Scottish National Records describe Portknockie, Green Castle as an Iron Age promontory fort, yet no visible remains or…
Pitlurg CastleDovecot (18th Century), Tower House (medieval)Pitlurg Castle stands in Moray as a roofless circular tower, its 16th century bones exposed after serving as an 18th…
MundoleTower House (medieval)(possible)Mundole stands in Moray as a possible medieval tower house, though it later became a working farmstead with a horse…
Mains of SkeithBarn (period Unassigned), Castle (medieval), Cottage (period Unassigned), Stable (period Unassigned), Threshing Mill (19th Century)Mains of Skeith in Moray, Scotland, still carries a medieval castle shadow beneath later farm buildings. A 19th Century…
Kininvie HouseTower House (medieval)Kininvie House stands in Moray as a layered tower where a 1523 defensive core still rises beside rooms rebuilt by…
Kilnmaichlie HouseTower House (16th Century)Kilnmaichlie House stands in Moray as a circa 16th century L-plan tower house whose core dates to 1490, when Sir Walter…
Keith, Station Road, Milton TowerTower House (medieval)Milton Tower still stands on Station Road in Keith, a medieval stone anchor in Moray. It is the kind of place where…
Innes HouseDovecot(s) (post Medieval), Formal Garden (post Medieval), Sundial(s) (post Medieval), Tower House (17th Century)Innes House stands in Moray as a seventeenth-century tower house surrounded by post-medieval formal gardens, sundials…
InaltryCastle (medieval)Inaltry Castle stands in Moray as a single rubble wall, holding two small niches and a deep circular hole that may have…
Gordonstoun HouseCountry House (17th Century), School (20th Century), Tower House (medieval)Gordonstoun House stands in Moray as a layered survivor, its west wing perhaps preserving the original 15th century…
Gauldwell CastleCastle (medieval)Gauldwell Castle is a medieval castle in Moray, Scotland, built around the 13th century though a castle may have stood…
Forres CastleCastle (medieval), Motte (medieval)(possible)Forres Castle stood at the west end of High Street, repeatedly destroyed and rebuilt from an early medieval castle into…
Findochty CastleCastle (medieval), Tower House (medieval)Findochty Castle is a ruined 16th-century tower house on a rock beside a drained loch in Moray, Scotland. The Gordons…
Elgin, Lady HillCastle (medieval), Motte (medieval)(possible)Elgin, Lady Hill is a medieval castle and possible motte in Moray, Scotland. The exact point is known to the nearest…
Elgin CastleCastleElgin Castle is a ruined royal fortress on Lady Hill in Moray, first recorded in a charter of Malcolm IV in 1160 and…
Duffus CastleBailey (medieval), Castle (medieval), Motte (medieval)Duffus Castle is one of the largest surviving Norman mottes in Scotland, where a man-made mound still carries the…
Dufftown, Mortlach DistilleryDistillery (19th Century), Tower House (medieval)Mortlach Distillery stands in Dufftown beside a medieval tower house, joining two ages in one breath. The tower watched…
Drumin CastleTower House (medieval)Drumin Castle stands in Moray as a medieval tower house, its stones still holding the shape of hands that built it to…
Davie's CastleFort (period Unassigned), Motte (medieval)(possible)Davie's Castle stands in Moray as a possible medieval motte, its earthworks hidden beneath grass and memory. The exact…
Darnaway CastleBanqueting Hall (15th Century), Country House (19th Century), Motte (medieval)(possible)Archibald Douglas, earl of Moray, built the great hall at Darnaway in 1450, leaving an open oak roof large enough for…
Cullen HouseCountry House (17th Century) - (19th Century), Tower House (17th Century)Scotland's National Record of the Historic Environment records Cullen House as Country House (17th Century) - (19th…
Cullen, Castle HillMotte (medieval)Castle Hill rises above Cullen as a medieval motte, its earth shaped by human hands rather than random weather. The…
CraigmillCastle (medieval)Craigmill stands in Moray as a medieval castle, its stones buried under grass and time. No tower remains visible, only…
Coxton TowerTower House (medieval)Coxton Tower rose near Lhanbryde around 1590 as a grossly antiquated fortress for Alexander Innes, relying on thick…
Coxton Tower, HouseHouse (period Unassigned), Tower House (medieval)Coxton Tower and House stand in Moray as a medieval tower house, its stones marked by centuries rather than a single…
Castle HillEarthwork (period Unassigned), Motte (medieval)(possible)Castle Hill rises in Moray as a possible medieval motte, its earthwork edges still sharp enough to suggest a fortress…
Castle HillCastle (medieval)(possible)Castle Hill in Moray, Scotland may have hidden a medieval castle, though no wall or room remains visible to test that…
Burgie CastleTower House (medieval)Burgie Castle rose in Moray when Alexander Dunbar died in 1593, leaving his son Robert to finish the tower by 1602. The…
Brodie CastleCastle (16th Century), Country House (19th Century), Sundial(s) (post Medieval), Tower House (16th Century)Brodie Castle is a 16th-century tower house in Moray that Clan Brodie completed in 1567, partially lost to fire in…
Blervie CastleCastle (medieval), Farmhouse (post Medieval), Farmstead (post Medieval), Tower House (medieval)Scotland's National Record of the Historic Environment records Blervie Castle as Castle (medieval), Farmhouse (post…
Blairfindy CastleTower House (medieval)Blairfindy Castle is a derelict 16th-century tower house in Moray, Scotland, completed in 1586 for John Gordon as a…
Ballindalloch CastleCountry House (18th Century), Tower House (medieval)Ballindalloch Castle is a Scottish baronial castle in Banffshire owned by the MacPherson-Grants since 1546, when they…
Auchindoun CastleFort (period Unassigned), Tower House (medieval)Auchindoun Castle is a medieval tower house in Moray, Scotland. Its stones still stand where they were set, though no…
Aikenway CastleCastle (medieval)Aikenway Castle is a medieval ruin on a promontory above the River Spey in Moray, Scotland. Tradition attributes its…
BalnabreichCastle (medieval)No credible record exists for the claimed Balnabreich castle, Claverhouse burning, Mulben reuse or even a consistent…
King's HaughCastle (medieval)(possible), Farmstead (period Unassigned), Field System (period Unassigned)King's Haugh is a possible medieval castle and farmstead hidden in Moray. It may have been a small fortress, a working…- Tullochcarron CastleCastle (medieval)No castle wall stands at Tullochcarron, though Castletown still keeps the name beside the River Avon. A medieval hall…
- Tronach CastlePromontory Fort (iron Age)Tronach Castle occupies a narrow Moray headland where an Iron Age promontory fort and a later post-medieval castle…
- Tower of DeskfordTower House (medieval)Little now remains of the Tower of Deskford, where only the vaulted ground floor survives beside the old kirk. In the…
- Thomshill, Castle HillMotte (medieval)(possible)Thomshill, Castle Hill in Moray, Scotland, may be a medieval motte, though the boundary between fact and legend blunts…
- Rothiemay CastleCastle (medieval)Rothiemay Castle stood as the Abernethy seat in Moray during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, hosting Queen Mary…
- Quarrelwood CastleCastle (medieval)Quarrelwood Castle stood north-west of Elgin from the 14th century until the mid 18th century, passing through Lauder…
- Pluscarden, 'castle Hill'Castle (medieval)(possible)Pluscarden, 'castle Hill' in Moray, Scotland, may have been a medieval castle, though no surviving structure confirms…
- Kilbuaick CastleCastle (medieval)Kilbuaick Castle stands in Moray as a medieval ruin, its walls reduced to fragments that marker surveys still place…
- Inverugie CastleCastle (medieval)Inverugie Castle was a medieval stronghold belonging to the Young family on a rocky promontory near Elgin. The Mortimer…
- Hempriggs CastleCastle (medieval)Hempriggs Castle stood in a Moray field during the reign of James II, belonging to a branch of the Dunbar Family before…
- Gordon Castle, TowerCountry House (18th Century) - (19th Century), Tower House (medieval)Gordon Castle, Tower stands in Moray as a medieval tower house later shaped into an 18th and 19th century country…
- ForesterseatCastle (medieval)(possible)Foresterseat is a possible medieval castle hidden in Moray, Scotland. The name suggests a keeper’s chair or a forest…
- Edinglassie CastleCastle (medieval)Edinglassie Castle stood in Mortlach until Highland clans burning it during their march from Strathspey to Strathbogie…
- Earnside CastleCastle (medieval)Earnside Castle belonged to the Cumyns of Altur around 1450, but no wall or chamber remains for them to haunt. Two…
- Dunphail CastleCastle (medieval)Dunphail Castle stood before 1314 on a steep hill in Moray, but Earl of Moray besieged it in 1330 and erosion has since…
- 'dundurcas Castle'Castle (medieval)Dundurcas Castle stands in Moray, Scotland, a medieval ruin marked only by a broad coordinate rather than a precise…
- Deskie CastleCastle (medieval), Earthwork (period Unassigned)Deskie Castle in Moray, Scotland, is a possible medieval stronghold. It is an irregular knoll with slight traces of…
- Davoch of Grange, Lady Hill, St Ninian's ChurchCastle (medieval), Church (18th Century) (1795), Grange (medieval), Motte (medieval)(possible), War Memorial (20th Century)Davoch of Grange, Lady Hill, St Ninian's Church in Moray, Scotland, holds a medieval castle, grange, possible motte, an…
- Craigneach CastleCastle (medieval)Craigneach Castle reduced to L-shaped foundations in Moray, its walls lost except a basal course under turf, stands…
- CastlehillCastle (medieval)(possible)Castlehill in Moray, Scotland may have been a medieval castle, but no surviving structure confirms the claim. The hill…
- Castle StripeTower House (medieval)Castle Stripe stands in Moray as a medieval tower house, its stones marked by time rather than display. It may have…