Inverugie Castle
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| Alternative name (s): | Cheyne's Tower | |
| Creation time : | 12th century, or 1660 |
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| Castle type : | Niederungsburg | |
| Conservation status: | ruin | |
| Standing position : | Scottish nobility | |
| Place: | Peterhead | |
| Geographical location | 57 ° 31 '30.7 " N , 1 ° 49' 49.8" W | |
| Height: | 17 m ASL | |
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Inverugie Castle , even Cheyne's Tower , one is castle ruins 3.2 km away from Peterhead in the Scottish county of Aberdeenshire . Only a small mound 3 meters high on the bank of the Ugie River has survived from the former wooden moth .
Original plant
The location of the ruins towards the river suggests that the castle was built to protect a ford at this point, and that the moats were filled with water from Ugie for additional protection.
Later building
On the ground floor of the residential tower with a rectangular floor plan there was a storage cellar and kitchen. There was a knight's hall on the first floor . In the north and south corners of the knight's hall there were small, straight stairs to access the two round towers. In the middle of the west side there was a third tower in which the main staircase was located. This tower faced the paved courtyard, which had a wall directly on the banks of the Ugie.
history
The Cheynne family built the first castle in Inverugie in the 12th century. In 1345, after the death of Reginald le Chen, Baron Inverugie , the castle fell through the marriage of Edward Keith to the heiress Marjorie , the daughter of Reginald le Chen and his wife Helen, nee. Strathhearn , to the Keith family Earl Marischals , who were headquartered in the coastal fortress of Dunnottar Castle . The Keiths had the stone Inverugie Castle - today's ruin - built south of the original Motte around 1660. In the 19th century, an oak escutcheon was found in a nearby farm. On it was the coat of arms of William Keith, 7th Earl Marischal , and the year 1660.
The Keiths had forfeited their lands to the crown after the Jacobite revolt in 1745. The property then fell to a James Ferguson , 3rd Laird of Pitfour , who kept the building in perfect condition until he died in 1820. But the 5th Laird did not undertake any restoration work on the castle and his successor left Inverugie Castle even more dilapidated.
In 1890 the castle was in a bad state of preservation and could no longer withstand the rough weather. Storms in April 1890 led to the collapse of some walls and the stair tower. After further storms on New Year's Day 1899, the building was declared unsafe by local authorities. The property factor, William Ainslie , ensured - possibly on the instructions of the then laird - that the remains of the ruin were blown up, which further weakened the remains. After only two weeks there wasn't much left of the castle.
Charles McKean described the castle as "a gleaming Renaissance chateau with two courtyards" and also wrote that it "consisted of a four-story main block with round towers at the corners and a stair tower".
Others
William Burnes or William Burness (1721–1784), the father of the poet Robert Burns , was born on de Clochnahill Farm in Dunnottar and trained as a gardener at Inverugie Castle before moving to Ayrshire.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Inverugie Castle . In: Stravaging Around Scotland . Retrieved September 22, 2017.
- ↑ Alex R. Buchan: Pitfour: "The Blenheim of the North" . Buchan Field Club. Pp. 119-120. 2008. Retrieved September 22, 2017.
- ↑ Alex R. Buchan: Pitfour: "The Blenheim of the North" . Buchan Field Club. S. 120. 2008. Retrieved September 22, 2017.
- ^ Charles McKean: Banff & Buchan: an illustrated architectural guide . Royal Incorporation of Architects in Scotland. Pp. 148-149. 1990. Retrieved March 19, 2013.