Towie Castle (site of)


Parish: Towie

County: Aberdeenshire

Grid reference: NJ 44024 12919

Lat / long: 57.20364417, -2.927018506

The historic map is an Ordnance Survey map from 1919 to 1947, and is provided by the National Library of Scotland

Towie Castle was a three-storey, L-plan Forbes mansion built some time after 1618.

The tunnels and battlements are said to have been removed in 1788, and the last remains were removed in the 1980s, having been largely demolished in 1968.

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created Friday, May 14th, 2010 at 2:00 pm, last updated Friday, May 14th, 2010 at 2:00 pm