Drum Castle

Drum Castle is located near Drumoak, Aberdeenshire, Scotland (Scottish Gaelic: Druim M'Aodhaig, Siorrachd Obar Dheathain, Alba). It is about ten miles west from Aberdeen off the A93 west from Peterculter in Aberdeenshire. The castle has a thirteenth century tower house with seventeenth century and Victorian additions. The castle and its grounds were granted to William de Irwyn in 1325 by Robert the Bruce, and remained in the possession of Clan Irvine until 1975. It is in eighteenth century gardens and now owned by the National Trust for Scotland and open to the public from April to October.

Image: Drum Castle in 1829 by John Preston Neale.

Link: National Trust For Scotland - Drum Castle, Garden and Estate.