Kinnaird Castle (Aberdeenshire)

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Kinnaird Castle
Kinnaird Head with the lighthouse (formerly: Kinnaird Castle) and the Wine Tower

Kinnaird Head with the lighthouse (formerly: Kinnaird Castle) and the Wine Tower

Alternative name (s): Fraserburgh Castle, Kinnairdshead Castle
Creation time : 1570s
Castle type : Höhenburg, spur location
Conservation status: Burgstall, built over
Standing position : Scottish nobility
Place: Fraserburgh
Geographical location 57 ° 41 '50 "  N , 2 ° 0' 15.7"  W Coordinates: 57 ° 41 '50 "  N , 2 ° 0' 15.7"  W.
Height: 15  m ASLTemplate: height / unknown reference
Kinnaird Castle (Scotland)
Kinnaird Castle

Kinnaird Castle , also Fraserburgh Castle or Kinnairdshead Castle , is an abandoned spur castle on a headland called Kinnaird Head in Fraserburgh in the Scottish county of Aberdeenshire .

history

Construction of the castle began in March 1570. Sir Alexander Fraser, 8th Laird of Philorth , (approx. 1536–1623) had it built. He also made the fishing village in the 1590s-years Faithlie to Burgh Fraserburgh. But the cost of building the castle was so high that Sir Alexander was forced to sell his family residence, Philorth Castle .

Alexander Fraser, 10th of Philorth , fought for the king in 1651 at the Battle of Worcester . Although badly wounded, he survived and lived into his 80s. In 1669 he inherited the title of Lord Saltoun and in his later years he owned apartments at Kinnaird Castle.

The last people to live in the castle were Henrietta Fraser (1698–1751), daughter of the 12th Lord Saltoun, and her husband, John Gordon of Kinellar (1684–1764). In 1787, Kinnaird Castle was leased to the Trustees of the Northern Lights , who converted the castle into the Kinnaird Head Lighthouse . This was designed by engineer Thomas Smith and the light was first lit on December 1, 1787. The building was rebuilt in the 1820s and replaced by a new lighthouse in 1991. Today the Museum of Scottish Lighthouses is housed there; it consists of the old lighthouse and a modern building which houses a collection of lenses and other artifacts from many lighthouses across Scotland.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Entry on Kinnaird Castle  in Canmore, the database of Historic Environment Scotland (English)
  2. ↑ The Frasers of Philorth, Lords Saltoun . Flora Fraser, 21st Lady Saltoun. Retrieved October 18, 2017.
  3. ↑ Alexander Fraser, Lord Saltoun: The Frasers of Philorth . 1879. Retrieved October 18, 2017.
  4. ^ Museum of Scottish Lighthouses . Museum of Scottish Lighthouses. Retrieved October 18, 2017.

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