Glenbuchat Castle
📍 Aberdeenshire, Scotland
About
Glenbuchat Castle is a historic Z plan Scottish castle built in 1590 for John Gordon of Cairnbarrow to mark his wedding. It is located above the River Don, near Kildrummy, Aberdeenshire. The building is roofless, but otherwise in fairly good repair.
Built in 1590 by John Gordon and his wife Helen Carnegie, as recorded on a marriage stone. A fine Z-plan tower house with round towers at diagonally opposite corners. Most famous for its last laird, John Gordon of Glenbuchat ('Old Glenbucket'), who joined the 1745 Jacobite rising aged 70. The name supposedly terrified George II. Now a roofless ruin in Historic Scotland care.
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