Balvaird Castle

Perthshire & Kinross, Scotland

Balvaird Castle is located in Perthshire, Scotland and is a particularly fine and complete example of a traditional late medieval Scottish tower house. It is located in the Ochil Hills south of Abernethy and Perth. The name Balvaird is from Baile a' Bhàird, 'Township of the Bard' in Gaelic.

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James Barclay of Balvaird

c.1455-c.1529

Brady Brim-DeForest

Brady Brim-DeForest of Balvaird Castle, FRGS, FRAI

b.c.1984

Andrew Murray

Sir Andrew Murray

c.1475-c.1527

Balvaird was built around the year 1495 for Sir Andrew Murray, a younger son of the family of Murray of Tullibardine. He acquired the lands of Balvaird through marriage to the heiress Margaret Barclay, a member of a wealthy family and daughter of James Barclay of Kippo. It is likely that Balvaird Castle was built on the site of an earlier Barclay family castle. Substantial remnants of earthwork fortifications around the Castle may survive from earlier defences. Balvaird is first mentioned in the written historical record in 1498 as 'the place of Balward' in the Register of the Great Seal of Scotland.

Styles

Scots Baronial

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