Recording Your Heritage Online
Event ID 562993
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Recording Your Heritage Online
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Pitlurg Castle, post 1539. Courtyard plan with circular tower on rock foundations, now doocot. Pitlurg Gordons descended from Jock o' Scudargue, near Rhynie, and held property until 1724. A descendent, General Gordon, 1815, took the name for his estate of Leask and Birness, Formartine.
Taken from "Aberdeenshire: Donside and Strathbogie - An Illustrated Architectural Guide", by Ian Shepherd, 2006. Published by the Rutland Press http://www.rias.org.uk
