Cluny Castle, Monymusk

Name: Cluny Castle
Address: Monymusk, United Kingdom

#2 among attractions in Monymusk

Forts and castles

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Cluny Castle was originally built c.1604 as a Z-plan castle replacing either a house or small peel tower. Sited in the parish of Cluny, it is south of Monymusk and north of Sauchen in Aberdeenshire, north-east Scotland. Owned by three separate branches of Gordon families over the centuries, it was used to shelter Jacobite rebels in the mid-18th century. Extensive additions were made in 1820 to the design of architect John Smith when it was in the ownership of Colonel John Gordon. Two wings of the castle and the adjoining private chapel were destroyed by fire in 1926, but the damage was restored. ()

Coordinates: 57°11'54"N, 2°30'21"W

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Monymusk United Kingdom

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Cluny Castle – popular in the area (distance from the attraction)

Nearby attractions include: Castle Fraser, Easter Aquhorthies stone circle, Hallforest Castle, Cullerlie stone circle.

1.7 miE
Architecture, Historical place, Forts and castles
Castle Fraser, Inverurie
45 min walk • Castle Fraser is the most elaborate Z-plan castle in Scotland and one of the grandest 'Castles of Mar'. It is located near Kemnay in the Aberdeenshire region of Scotland. The castle stands in over 300 acres of landscaped grounds, woodland and farmland which includes a walled kitchen garden of the 19th century.
5.9 miN
Historical place, Archaeological site
Easter Aquhorthies stone circle, Inverurie
150 min walk • Easter Aquhorthies stone circle, located near Inverurie in north-east Scotland, is one of the best-preserved examples of a recumbent stone circle, and one of the few that still have their full complement of stones and the only one that has all its stones still standing without having been re-erected.
5.5 miNE
Forts and castles
Hallforest Castle
140 min walk • Hallforest Castle is a keep, one of the oldest in Scotland, as it dates from the 14th century. It is about a mile and a half from Kintore, in Aberdeenshire. Alternative names are Castle of Hallforrest, Hall Forest Castle or simply Hallforrest.
7.4 miSE
Archaeological site
Cullerlie stone circle
188 min walk • Cullerlie stone circle, also known as the Standing Stones of Echt, is a small stone circle situated near Echt, Aberdeenshire. It consists of eight irregular stones of red granite arranged at approximately equal intervals to form a circle of 10.2 m diameter, enclosing the same number of small cairns.
6.3 miNW
Forts and castles
Castle Forbes
162 min walk • Castle Forbes is a 19th-century country house in the Scottish baronial architecture style near Alford in Aberdeenshire, Scotland. The 6,000-acre Vale of Alford estate has been home to the Forbes for over 600 years. The original house was named Putachie.
7 miNE
Stela
Broomend of Crichie stone
180 min walk • The Broomend of Crichie Stone is a class I Pictish stone that stands within a henge at Broomend of Crichie, Port Elphinstone, Inverurie, Aberdeenshire, Scotland. It was placed within the henge in the 19th century. The stone bears the incised symbols of the Pictish beast and the crescent and V-rod.
6.2 miSE
Nature, Natural attraction, Lake
Loch of Skene, Westhill
159 min walk • Loch of Skene is a large lowland, freshwater loch in Aberdeenshire, Scotland. It lies approximately 1 mi to the west of the village of Kirkton of Skene and 9 mi west of Aberdeen.
4.1 miS
Prehistoric site
Sunhoney
106 min walk • Sunhoney is a stone circle of the recumbent type, which is common in the Grampian region, in particular at the River Dee. Sunhoney is situated about 2 km west of Echt in Aberdeenshire, near to the Cullerlie and Midmar stone circles.
3.6 miNE
Forts and castles
Fetternear Palace, Monymusk
92 min walk • Fetternear Bishop's Palace is an archaeological site of what was one of the palaces of the medieval bishops of Aberdeen. it is near Kemnay in Aberdeenshire. Later, a ruined tower-house and mansion of Fetternear House were built on part of the site.
3.4 miNE
57°14'6"N • 2°26'44"W
Kemnay Village Hall, Kemnay
87 min walk • City hall
4.3 miS
Forts and castles
Midmar Castle
109 min walk • Midmar Castle is a 16th-century castle in Aberdeenshire, Scotland, located 12 kilometres west of Westhill and 3.5 kilometres west of Echt.