Tullynessle Tower


Parish: Tullynessle and Forbes

County: Aberdeenshire

Grid reference: NJ 5 1

Lat / long: 57.178087, -2.828653

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

Patrick Forbes of Carse, the Bishop of Aberdeen (1564 - 1635), had a tower in the parish of Tullynessle which he used as his summer residence.

All that remains of the buidling is a stone in the wall of a barn bearing the arms and motto of the Forbes.

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