Note
Date 1984
Event ID 1155585
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Note
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1155585
Balfour Castle NO 337 546 NO35SW 2
All that remains standing of this castle is a circular tower to which the present farmhouse is attached. The tower, which tapers markedly upwards is of six storeys with a vaulted ground floor and is furnished with wide gunports; it probably stood at the SW corner of a courtyard, the remains of the NE tower having been removed in the 19th century. The castle was probably built in the early 16th century.
RCAHMS 1984.
(NSA, xi, Forfar, 615; Warden 1880-85, iv, 34-5; MacGibbon and Ross 1887-92, iii, 337-8; Tranter 1962- 70, iv, 98-9).
