What is recorded here

Towie Castle was a large L-plan tower house built after 1618 in Aberdeenshire, Scotland. It stood with vaulted floors and corner turrets until demolition began in 1968, leaving only a cairn to mark the exact spot where its stones once rose. The loss feels like a small wound in the landscape, as if the land forgot the shape of a home that probably echoed with footsteps, arguments and quiet prayers before disappearing.

Scotland's National Record of the Historic Environment records Towie Castle as Tower House (medieval). 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.

Towie Castle is a medieval tower house located in Aberdeenshire, Scotland, and was likely built in the 15th or 16th century by a local landholding family. It is remembered as an example of the defensive architecture common in the region during a period of frequent clan conflict and border instability.

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