Airlie Castle

Drawing of Airlie Castle

Airlie Castle is a manor house near the junction has the Isla and the Melgund Rivers, approximately nine kilometers west of Kirriemuir in Angus, Scotland.

History

Once it has received 1432 lands by King James I of Scotland, built Walter Ogilvy of Lintrathen, Lord High Treasurer of Scotland in the same year a castle on the property. It was a stronghold and seat of the family Ogilvy.

During the wars of the three kingdoms of the Ogilvie's King Charles I of England and the Royalists supported. 1640 was the castle of parliamentary troops under the command of Archibald Campbell, 8th Earl of Argyll, destroyed.

On its ruins then were built in the years 1792 and 1793, including the preserved remains of walls, the existing mansion today. Airlie Castle is currently inhabited and therefore can not be visited.