What is recorded here
Inchdrewer Castle is a ruined 16th-century tower house south-west of Banff, built around 1500 for the Currour family before the Ogilvies made it their main seat. It survived Covenanter attacks in 1640, a murder and burning in 1713, and another siege in 1746, yet still stands as a weathered ashlar shadow above Banff Bay. The repeated violence suggests the castle was never merely a home but a prize, a warning and a wound in the northern landscape.
Scotland's National Record of the Historic Environment records Inchdrewer Castle as Tower House (16th Century). The official map says its point is accurate as follows: NGR given to the nearest 1m. The record does not by itself mean that the public may enter the place.
Inchdrewer Castle is a 16th-century tower house located in Scotland, built by an unidentified local landholder. It is remembered as a typical example of the defensive and residential architecture of the Scottish Lowlands during the late medieval period.
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Places near here
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TippertyFarmhouse (period Unassigned), Farmstead (period Unassigned) · 1044 yd
Hill of AlvahCairn(s) (bronze Age) · 1198 yd
Claret BraeForest · 1.2 mi
Hill of CulbirnieNo Class (event) (21st Century) · 1.6 mi
Hill of ItlawMountain / peak · 2.0 mi
Hill of RylandMountain / peak · 2.3 mi
Mains of AuchinbadieNo Class (event) (period Unassigned) · 2.5 mi
Inverboyndie, CemeteryCemetery (20th Century) · 2.5 mi
RAF Banff Strike Wing MemorialMonument · 2.6 mi
Museum of BanffMuseum · 2.8 miOther information
Photo: Anne Burgess · CC BY-SA 2.0