Inverey Castle
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Built16th century
| Inverey Castle | |
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| Location | |
  Inverey Castle | |
| Coordinates | 56°59′08″N 3°30′05″W / 56.985658°N 3.501474°W |
| Site history | |
| Built | 16th century |
Inverey Castle was a 17th-century tower house, about 4.5 miles (7.2 km) west of Braemar, Aberdeenshire, Scotland, near the meeting of the River Dee and the Ey Burn, at Inverey.[1]
The castle was burned in 1689, about fifty years after its construction.[2]
Inverey belonged to John Farquharson of Inverey, who murdered John Gordon of Brackley, an event recorded in a ballad. Farquharson took part in the Jacobite rising of 1689, defeating an attack on Braemar Castle. Supposedly, he wished to be buried at Inverey and when buried instead at St Andrew's churchyard, Braemar, his coffin thrice resurfaced before that wish was granted.[1]
