What is recorded here

Knock Castle is a four-storey tower house built around 1600 in Aberdeenshire, where thick walls still stand although the roof has long since vanished. Its windows hide angled pistol holes for shooting downward, a brutal practicality that suggests fear lived as naturally as breath inside. The nearby mound holds ghosts of an older timber stronghold destroyed in 1590, while local memory spins dark tales of peat cutters and severed heads. Whether those stories are true or merely shaped by grief and vengeance, the castle remains a sharp reminder that beauty and cruelty often share the same stones.

Scotland's National Record of the Historic Environment records Knock Castle as Structure(s) (period Unassigned). The official map says its point is accurate as follows: NGR given to the nearest 10m. The record does not by itself mean that the public may enter the place.

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