Towie Castle
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Towie Castle was a 17th-century tower house, about 3.5 miles (5.6 km) southwest of Kildrummy in Aberdeenshire, Scotland, on the right bank of the Don.[1][2] It was sometimes known as Towie Forbes to distinguish it from Towie Barclay near Turriff.
The property belonged to Clan Forbes. There may have been an earlier castle.
Towie Castle may have been the castle burnt by Adam Gordon of Auchindoun, resulting in the deaths of Lady Forbes, her children, and numerous others, and giving rise to the ballad Edom o Gordon, although this is often related to Corgarff Castle.[1]
The castle was built after 1618, and is thought to have been unfinished. It is said that the tunnels and battlements were said removed in 1788, and the building altered.[2] Ruins of the castle were removed in 1968,[1] with the last remains being removed by Grampian Regional Council in the 1980s.[2]