
What is recorded here
Scotland's National Record of the Historic Environment records Tilquhillie 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.
Tilquhillie Castle was built as a medieval tower house, likely by a local landholding family in the 15th or 16th century. It is remembered as an example of Scottish medieval defensive architecture and as evidence of the region's historic patterns of land ownership and settlement.
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Places near here
TilquhillieRecumbent Stone Circle (neolithic) - (bronze Age) · 75 yd
Mill of TilquhillieMill (period Unassigned) · 624 yd
InkermanBoundary Stone (19th Century) · 1137 yd
RhindbuckieMountain / peak · 1163 yd
Rhindbuckie WoodForest · 1165 yd
Maryfield FarmFarmstead (period Unassigned) · 1678 yd
Craig of Affrusk WoodForest · 1.1 mi
Falls of FeughWaterfall · 1.3 mi
Hill of BanchoryNo Class (event) (period Unassigned) · 1.6 mi
Crathes CastleNo Class (event) (21st Century) · 1.8 mi
Crathes Castle, Walled GardenWalled Garden (period Unassigned) · 1.8 mi
James Scott Skinner MemorialMemorial · 1.8 miOther information
Photo: Anne Burgess · CC BY-SA 2.0