What is recorded here
Barlcay Castle and Steading stand in Aberdeenshire as a farmstead, not a grand castle or forgotten ruin. The tower may have belonged to a local family before becoming a working home, but no date or name survives in the public record. What remains is a building shaped by ordinary life: fire, rain, labour and the patience of stone.
Scotland's National Record of the Historic Environment records Tower of Barlcay Castle, Steading as Farmstead (period Unassigned). 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.
The historic-place record does not grant public access. Check current conditions and ownership before entering land or a building.
Places near here
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West PitdoulzieFarm Labourers Cottage(s) (period Unassigned), Farmstead (period Unassigned) · 1500 yd
Braes of Slack o' CausewayWood · 1.1 mi
LendrumBattle Site (11th Century), Cairnfield (post Medieval) · 1.3 mi
Lower WoodtownNo Class (event) (period Unassigned) · 1.6 mi
Hatton CastleCastle (medieval), Tower House (medieval) · 2.0 mi
Rappla WoodForest · 2.2 mi
War MemorialMemorial · 2.4 mi
Fyvie CastleCastle (medieval), Country House (period Unassigned) · 3.1 mi
Fyvie Castle, Walled GardenWalled Garden (period Unassigned) · 3.2 mi