Knock Castle Ballater

Knock Castle is a ruined tower house dating from about 1600 and located a mile west from the town of Ballater, Aberdeenshire, Scotland (Scottish Gaelic: Bealadair, Siorrachd Obar Dheathain, Alba). Knock Castle is now without a roof,  rectangular and four stories high. It about 27 feet by 22 feet and the falls are some 4 feet thick. A short distance to the west is a motte, with the possible foundations of an earlier 12th-century timber fortress, known as the Old Castle Knock.

The castle was granted to the Gordons of Abergeldie by the 4th Earl of Huntly after the Battle of Corrichie.  The Battle of Corrichie was fought near the area of Meikle Tap, near Aberdeen, Scotland, on 28 October 1562. It was fought between the forces of George Gordon, 4th Earl of Huntly, chief of Clan Gordon, against the forces of Mary, Queen of Scots, under James Stewart, 1st Earl of Moray. 

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Link: About Aberdeen - Knock Castle Ballater.